balloon
IPA: bʌɫˈun
noun
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A speech bubble.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
- (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
- (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
- (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- (slang) A woman's breast.
- (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- (finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
verb
- (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
- (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- (aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
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