balloon

Meanings

Plural: balloons

Noun

large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A speech bubble.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
A woman's breast.
A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
Synonym of balloon payment.

Verb

ride in a hot-air balloon
- "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"
become inflated
- "The sails ballooned"
To increase or expand rapidly.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
To inflate like a balloon.
To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

Origin / Etymology

1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.

Synonyms

assets, babylons, badonkers, balloon payment, balloons, bangers, baps, bazongas, bazookas, bazoombas, bazooms, bewbs, billow, booba, boobage, boobers, boobies, boobs, boosies, bosom, breast [⇒ thesaurus]s, breasticles, bristols, bubby, bubs, bust, calcium cannons, cans, cantaloupes, casabas, charlies, chebs, chest melons, chesticles, chichis, coconuts, diddy, ding-dongs, dirty pillows, double Ds, dugs, front bumpers, frontage, fumetto, funbags, gazongas, girls, globes, grapefruits, headlights, honkers, hooters, inflate, itty-bittys, jahoobies, jigglies, jubblies, jugs, knockers, lady lumps, love pillows, mammaries, mammary glands, mammas, maracas, megaboobs, melons, milk jugs, milkbags, milkers, mommy milkers, money makers, mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s, norks, pair, paps, personality, porpoise, puppies, rack, speech bubble, sweater puppies, tatas, teats, threepenny bits, tiddies, tits, titters, titties, top bollocks, torpedos, toy balloon, tracts of land, twin peaks, twins, udders, waps, yabos, zoomers

Scrabble Score: 9

balloon is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
balloon is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
balloon is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

balloon is a valid Words With Friends word