🌭 A meat food 🎈 A small airship

sausage

6 9.9

A long balloon used to watch from the sky with a small cabin under it

noun
/ˈsɔsɪdʒ/

Archaic

: dirigible

The artist created a striking sculpture of a sausage-shaped blimp that hovered above the city square.
sausage-shaped
sausage curls
sausage finger

Examples

It's a tight fit inside this metal sausage.

Fiction book (2002)
The plane's body is a hollow sausage, held aloft by spatula wings.

Fiction book (1997)
Around this time, a retired German army officer... known as the crazy old Count von Zeppelin... flew a 400-foot sausage equipped with two marine motors for 20 miles.

The Hindenburg (1975)
The balloon floated gracefully in the sky, resembling a large sausage as it swayed gently in the breeze.
For the festival, they launched a bright red sausage airship that towered over the crowd and drew everyone's attention.

Synonyms

blimp

vssausage

28 5.7

A small soft flying balloon used to carry cameras or show ads

is similar but emphasizes wartime or defensive observation use

airship

vssausage

21 5.6

A large steerable flying machine filled with a light gas like helium

is a much smaller nonrigid observational craft rather than a powered air vehicle

sausage balloon

vssausage

Archaic

9.9

A long thin bag filled with air used to fly above and watch, often in war

is the general small observational craft used in many contexts

barrage balloon

vssausage

Archaic

8.5

A large balloon tied to the ground with cables to keep low enemy planes away in war

is smaller and usually free to fly for watching rather than blocking

Idioms

to hide the sausage

Offensive

9.9

To hide something as a joke that often means sex

Compounds

blood sausage

5 4.1

A dark sausage made from cooked animal blood, fat, and other ingredients

Vienna sausage

5 3.6

A small thin cooked sausage sold in cans or jars

pork sausage

3 1.0

A food people make from ground pork and spices inside a skin and cook

sausage roll

1 1.2

A baked snack of sausage meat wrapped in pastry

sausage pizza

1 1.0

A pizza that has tomato sauce, cheese, and pieces of sausage

liver sausage

1 3.9

A soft meat spread people make from ground liver and spices

sausage stuffer

Specialized

1 5.1

A device that pushes ground meat into casings to make sausages

sausage meat

1 1.5

Minced meat mixed with spices for making sausages or patties

sausage party

NSFW

1 8.1

An informal social event attended mostly by men with few women

Bologna sausage

2.6

A large smooth smoked sausage often sliced and eaten cold

sausage balloon

Archaic

9.9

A long thin bag filled with air used to fly above and watch, often in war

sausage curl

6.0

A thick round lock of hair that looks like a small sausage

sausage dog

3.5

A small dog with a long body and short legs

sausage-like

3.6

Long and rounded like a small tube

sausage hound

7.7

A small dog with a long body and short legs, a dachshund

sausage maker

3.3

A small machine that fills sausage casings with meat

How Big

zeppelin

42 8.2

dirigible

Archaic

4 9.3

sausage

Archaic

6 9.9

blimp

28 5.7

kite balloon

Archaic

9.6

Surface Forms

sausage singular

sausages plural

Etymology

Sausage for an airship is a later nickname based on shape. People saw the long, round airship and compared it to the food sausage, so the word came to mean a long, soft airship as well.