Colonel Blimp

noun

-ˈblimp How to pronounce Colonel Blimp (audio)
Definition of Colonel Blimpnext
as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas felt like a Colonel Blimp when it came to how his grandchildren communicated with each other

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  1. conservative
  2. veteran
  3. fossil
  4. stuffed shirt
Noun
  • Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Coney Barrett, broke with conservatives to side with the court's three liberal justices.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
  • At the same time, conservatives accuse it of regulatory overreach.
    Stan Meiburg, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of conservative
Noun
  • Hegseth repeatedly deflected the various misconduct allegations and instead focused on his own combat experience in the Army National Guard as senators determine whether the combat veteran and former TV news show host is fit to lead the U.S. military.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
  • But just as important, say trauma veterans and professionals, is the psychological reconstruction — the Herculean challenge of restoring the sense of confidence and hope now also reduced to rubble.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of veteran
Noun
  • At the center of this volcanic fossil is a vent that is around 25 miles (40 km) wide.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The description of the new species was based on the discovery of fossils unearthed between 2013 and 2016 by University of Wisconsin–Madison Geology Museum (UWMGM) field crews at a site in what is now Wyoming.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of fossil
Noun
  • With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.
    NBC News, NBC News, 9 May 2020
  • Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.
    The Economist, The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
Definition of stuffed shirt
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