blimp out

intransitive verb

blimped out; blimping out; blimps out

slang

: to gain a lot of weight : to become fat

My parents were terrified I'd blimp out if I wasn't careful, but I didn't worry.

—Spy, November 1996

… last year I gained 30 pounds and really blimped out after falling … and breaking my foot.

—Janet Evanovich, quoted in New Zealand Herald, 4 July 2010

blimped-out adjective

The second act sends the duo into outer space, where the blimped-out descendants of earth's last residents laze about on a giant cruise ship …

—Ryan Burns, Eureka (California) Times Standard, 8 July 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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