balloon

Definitions

• 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 through the air.
• (medicine) 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.
• (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
• (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
• (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
• (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
• (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
• (slang) A woman's breast.
• (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
• (finance)