Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BALLOON

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Definitions of BALLOON

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

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