Definition of "zeppelins" []

• Plural form of zeppelin. (noun)

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• "Compared to Earth this story backs off a little on the eco-catastrophe that he predicted: in this story parts of Washington are just being reinhabited after a terrorist attack and the zeppelins are a response to the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in long-distance travel."
• "In every war, however, weapons development moves quickly and by Christmas Day, 1914, the Royal Navy was so concerned about the danger from airships — which the Germans called zeppelins — that it mounted an attack by shipborne airplanes on a German airship base on the North Sea."
• "Cover the "zeppelins" with heavy-handed neon advertisements for the off-world colonies and we're getting somewhere ..."