Definition of "Blimp"

Blimp

noun
plural Blimps
1. (humorous) A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.
  Quotations
  One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.
  1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, Part I