airbag

• air-bag, air bag

From air +‎ bag.

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airbag (plural airbags)

1. (automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
   • 1997, “Airbag”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:

     In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life

   • 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:

     However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.

2. A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
   • 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students, page 1030:

     As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.

3. (slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈɛːr.bɛk/

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• Hyphenation: air‧bag

airbag m (plural airbags, diminutive airbagje n)

1. An airbag.

   Synonym: botsballon

Borrowed from English airbag.

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ.baɡ/

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airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
2. (in the plural, slang) knockers, tits

• “airbag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

• IPA^(key): /erˈbɛɡ/, /ˈɛr.beɡ/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ, -ɛrbeɡ

airbag m (invariable)

1. airbag (protective system)

• bragia, garbai

• air bag

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

airbag n (plural airbaguri)

1. airbag

• (nonstandard) air bag

Borrowed from English airbag.

• IPA^(key): /aiɾˈbaɡ/ [ai̯ɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
• IPA^(key): (nonstandard) /eɾˈbaɡ/ [eɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -aɡ
• Syllabification: air‧bag

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
   • 1997, Jesús Calvo Martín, Mecánica del automóvil actual, Reverte, →ISBN, page 218:

     En un futuro el sistema de control del airbag podrá determinar las características del ocupante e incluso ya se piensa en un airbag que proteja a los peatones en caso de atropello.

     In the future, the airbag control system will be able to determine the characteristics of the occupant, and they're already thinking about an airbag that could protect pedestrians in case of accident.

• “airbag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag, attested since the 1970s.

airbag c

1. an airbag

   Synonym: krockkudde

• airbaghjälm (“airbag helmet”)

• airbag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• airbag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• braiga

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

• IPA^(key): /e.iɾ.beɟ/

airbag (definite accusative airbagi, plural airbagler)

1. airbag