blimp out
1. offensive slang To become fat or fatter. Have you seen Phil recently? He's really blimped out since college. He used to be one of the most athletic students back in high school, but he's really blimped out recently. I need to start exercising again. I can tell I'm starting to blimp out.
2. slang To eat an excessive amount of food, especially junk food. It's hard not to blimp out at a Super Bowl party where there's a lot of junk food. A: "Don't let the kids blimp out on sweets, OK?" B: "Sure, it's not like I want to deal with three kids hopped up on sugar!" I blimped out on popcorn during the movie, so I'm not hungry for dinner right now.
blimped
slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really blimped! Well, I must have been blimped if I got up and did karaoke at the bar! Help him get home, will ya? He started drinking whiskey, and now he's blimped.
Colonel Blimp
An older man who is pompous or irritable and adheres to an outdated ideology. The name comes from a British comic strip character that first appeared in the London Evening Standard newspaper in 1934. Primarily heard in UK. He's such a Colonel Blimp when he starts ranting about his views on welfare and the poor. Grandfather, if you don't change with the times, people will eventually think you're a Colonel Blimp. There's no working with that Colonel Blimp of a headmaster who always thinks he's right!
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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.
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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
blimp
n. a nickname for an obese person. This enormous blimp managed to get on the plane but couldn’t get into a seat.
blimp out
in. to overeat. I love to buy a bag of chips and just blimp out.
blimped
mod. alcohol intoxicated; swollen with drinking. I am still a little blimped from our party last night.
Have a blimp!
exclam. Have a good year! (A play on Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which operates the Goodyear blimp.) Have a blimp! See you next summer.
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