blimp

noun5

1. •
   An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.
2. •
   Any large airborne inflatable.

   • a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies — 2018
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

verb2

1. •
   (slang) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.

   • 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.
2. •
   To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.

noun1

1. •
   (humorous) A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.

   • One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia. — 1941