the name of a cartoon character created by Sir David Low. <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimps</span>) (British) A stereotype of a pompous, ex-military middle-aged...
<span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimps</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">blimp</span> From <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span>, a comic character created by David Low and first appearing in London's Evening Standard in April 1934. <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Blimps</span>)...
From <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> + -ery. Blimpery (uncountable) (British, derogatory) Pompous political conservatism....
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> English Wikipedia has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">blimp</span> Wikipedia Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia...
Uncle Wilbert Robinson. (often capitalized) Pompously reactionary, like <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span>. 1943 June 21, “News: Gad, Sir, He Had To Die”, in Time: A young Home...
page 327: 9. Powell and Pressburger produced a short film between <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> and A Canterbury Tale: The Volunteer, a recruiting film for the Fleet...
lieutenancy lieutenantship majorship sergeantcy sergeantship <span class="searchmatch">colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span> <span class="searchmatch">colonels</span>' coup rank or office of a <span class="searchmatch">colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">colonel</span> on Wikipedia.Wikipedia...
address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> <span class="searchmatch">Blimp</span>. Homophone: heirship airship (plural airships) (aviation) A lighter-than-air...
arms whirl like electric fans. 1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of <span class="searchmatch">Colonel</span> De Lancey, page 79: Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer...