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
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