Zeppelin

A German manufacturing company, famed for building the Zeppelin airships.

Proper noun

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

Origin

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

Forms

zeppelin

Related

airship balloon barrage balloon blimp dirigible hot air balloon

Noun

  1. 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. A rigid airship dirigible, not restricted to Germany nor the early 20th century.
  3. 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.

Forms

Zeppelins zeppelin

Synonyms

rigid rigid airship dirigible

Hypernyms

airship dirigible

Derived

go down like a lead zeppelin go over like a lead zeppelin zeppelin bend zeppelin mail Zeppelin stamp