Blimp vs Blim - What's the difference?
blimp | blim |
An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
* 2004 , , 16 & 23 Feb 2004
(slang) An obese person.
A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
(slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
* 2005 , James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney (page 322)
* 2008 , Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros (page 114)
* 2011 , Niall Griffiths, Grits (page 274)
As nouns the difference between blimp and blim
is that blimp is a military middle class englishman intolerant of others’ ideas while blim is (slang|uk) a chunk of cannabis resin.blimp
English
(wikipedia blimp)Noun
(en noun)- The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium
Synonyms
* barrage balloon * GossageDerived terms
* Blimp * blimpishVerb
(en verb)- After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
- Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
Synonyms
* blimp outSee also
* airship * balloon * dirigible * zeppelin, ZeppelinExternal links
* * English terms with unknown etymologiesblim
English
Noun
(en noun)- Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
- Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim ?
- — Can anyone spair us a blim ? Mags sez.