Usually means: Airship without internal structural framework.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word blimp:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. blimp: Merriam-Webster
  2. blimp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Blimp, blimp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blimp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Blimp, blimp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blimp, blimp: Wordnik
  7. blimp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Blimp, blimp: Wiktionary
  9. blimp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blimp: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. blimp: Dictionary.com
  12. blimp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. blimp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blimp (disambiguation), Blimp, The Blimp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. blimp: Rhymezone
  16. blimp: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. blimp: FreeDictionary.org
  18. blimp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Blimp: The Word Detective
  20. Blimp: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. blimp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. blimp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blimp: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BLIMP: Acronym Finder
  2. blimp: A Word A Day
  3. blimp: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blimp, blimp, blimp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blimp: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. blimp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See blimping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
noun:  (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
noun:  (slang) An obese person.
noun:  A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
noun:  (film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
verb:  (transitive) To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.
noun:  (humorous) A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.

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