Zeppelin

• zeppelin

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin, whose surname derives from the German town name Zepelin. Doublet of cepelinas.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.pə.lɪn/
• Hyphenation: Zep‧pe‧lin

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USS Los Angeles, a Zeppelin (in both the broad and strict senses)

Zeppelin (plural Zeppelins)

1. (aviation) A type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and designed to carry passengers or bombs.
2. (aviation, by extension, informal) A rigid airship dirigible, not restricted to Germany nor the early 20th century.
3. (slang, rare) The penis.
   • 2022, Seaward Dracula, ‎D. Stroker, sVck

     She shoved him back on the bed, but fear had turned his zeppelin into a deflated balloon, and try as she might, she couldn't blow any air into it.

• rigid
• rigid airship
• dirigible

• airship
• dirigible

Zeppelin

1. A German manufacturing company, famed for building the Zeppelin airships.
2. Abbreviation of Led Zeppelin.

• airship
• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• dirigible
• hot air balloon

• (penis): Tony Thorne (2014) “zeppelin”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Named after Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛpəliːn/

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Zeppelin m or (rare) n (strong, genitive Zeppelins, plural Zeppeline)

1. (strictly) rigid airship, Zeppelin
2. (in common usage) any airship

   Synonym: Luftschiff