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COLONEL BLIMP

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Overview

COLONEL BLIMP (noun)
  The noun COLONEL BLIMP has 2 senses:

1. any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)play

2. a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Lowplay

  Familiarity information: COLONEL BLIMP used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


COLONEL BLIMP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Blimp; Colonel Blimp

Hypernyms ("Colonel Blimp" is a kind of...):

extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative (an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))


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