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blimps

/blɪmps/

blimps is the plural of blimp.

blimps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blimp.

Meaning of blimp

Noun

blimp (plural blimps)

  1. An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.
    • 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker
  2. (broadly) Any large airborne inflatable.
    • a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies2018 July 14, “Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London”, in Evening Standard
  3. (slang) An obese person.
  4. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
  5. A soundproof cover for a video camera.
    • You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209
    Synonyms:
    barney

See all 8 meanings of blimp

Noun capitalized: Blimps

Blimps

  1. (plural) plural of Blimp

Phrases with blimps

Words that rhyme with blimps

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Questions about blimps

What is blimps the plural of?
Blimps is the plural of blimp.
What part of speech is blimps?
Blimps is a noun.
How do you pronounce blimps?
Blimps is pronounced /blɪmps/.

Words near blimps in the dictionary

  1. blimping up
  2. blimpish
  3. blimpishly
  4. blimpishness
  5. blimplike
  6. blimps
  7. blimps out
  8. blimps up
  9. blimpy
  10. blims
  11. blimy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blimps (page history and authors); Blimps (page history and authors); blimp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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