Usually means: Flexible bag filled with gas.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. balloon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. balloon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. balloon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. balloon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. balloon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Balloon, balloon: Wordnik
  7. balloon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. balloon: Wiktionary
  9. balloon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. balloon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. balloon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. balloon: Dictionary.com
  13. balloon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. balloon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Balloon (Merse), Balloon (aeronautics), Balloon (aircraft), Balloon (band), Balloon (disambiguation), Balloon (typeface), Balloon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Balloon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. balloon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. balloon: Rhymezone
  19. balloon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. balloon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Balloon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. balloon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. balloon: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. balloon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. balloon: Free Dictionary
  26. balloon: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. balloon: Finance-Glossary.com
  3. balloon: Legal dictionary
  4. Balloon: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Balloon (aircraft), balloon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. Balloon (aircraft), balloon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. balloon: Idioms
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. balloon, balloon, balloon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Balloon: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Balloon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Balloon: Construction Glossary

(Note: See ballooned as well.)

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

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