Blimp
See also: blimp
English
Etymology
From the cartoon character Colonel Blimp, created by Sir David Low (1891–1963).
Noun
Blimp (plural Blimps)
- A military middle class Englishman intolerant of others’ ideas.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
- One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
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