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COLONEL BLIMP
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• 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)
2. a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low
Familiarity information: COLONEL BLIMP used as a noun is rare.
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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