hot-air balloon

noun

: a large balloon that is filled with heated air and that floats in the sky with a basket underneath for people to ride in

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There was a hot-air balloon crash in the stands before the game and a halftime reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans from the War of 1812 that tore up the natural grass field at Tulane Stadium. —

Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family. —

Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 Peter Carnes, who launched the first hot-air balloon flight in America in 1784 in Philadelphia, lived in and flew hot-air balloons in Augusta. —

Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2024 The drink’s unique presentation — mounted on a whimsical stand shaped like a hot-air balloon — symbolized the journey its ingredients took to come together. —

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