1916, of obscure origin, many claimants. "One of the weird coinages of the airmen" [Weekley]. Common theory is that it is from designers' prototype nickname Type B-limp, in the sense of [..]

Slang term referring to small airships

 – A housing for the camera intended to prevent sound equipment from picking up any extra sounds emitting from the camera.

the sound-deadening housing a noisy movie camera is put in to prevent the sound equipment from picking up extra sounds  

Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that will occasionally fall from alight 'joints', causing small burns to skin, clothing and furnishings. E.g."You could tell he was a heavy smok [..]

(n) any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)(n) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

a term coined in 1915 as a friendly synonym for a pressure airship. The word is said to have mimicked the sound made when a man snapped his thumb on the airship’s gas-filled envelope. It is not derive [..]

very fat person

A military middle class Englishman intolerant of others’ ideas. * '''1941''', , '''' *: One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wi [..]