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blimp

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blimp out
to overeat; to eat too much and gain weight. I blimp out almost every weekend. If I could stop blimping out, I could lose some weight.
See also: out

Have a blimp!

Sl. Have a good year! (A reference to the Goodyear blimp, which is famous for being at notable events.) Good-bye. Have a blimp! Have a blimp! See you next summer.
See also: have
a Colonel Blimp  (British old-fashioned)
an old man who has old-fashioned ideas and believes he is very important He's very much a Colonel Blimp with his comments about foreign influences dividing our society.


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The idea for an Avicta Complete Cotton blimp was born out of these adverse circumstances, but upon planning, it seemed as though just the blimp floating across the Cotton Belt was not going to achieve the desired communication objections.
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But the high point — pun intended — of his blimp career is flying over football games at his alma mater, Auburn University.
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