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BARRAGE BALLOON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barrage balloon mean?
• BARRAGE BALLOON (noun)
The noun BARRAGE BALLOON has 1 sense:
1. an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low
Familiarity information: BARRAGE BALLOON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("barrage balloon" is a kind of...):
airship; dirigible (a steerable self-propelled aircraft)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barrage balloon"):
kite balloon (a barrage balloon with lobes at one end that keep it headed into the wind)
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