Definition of "hot-air balloon" [hot-air balloon]

• A balloon-shaped aircraft whose bag is inflated with hot air; it carries passengers and crew in a gondola slung underneath. (noun)

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• "They also supply the makers of hot-air balloon baskets, for which willow’s resilience and strength is ideal, or the weavers of willow coffins."
• "One day, at the urging of his classmates, he builds a hot-air balloon using a bedsheet and a hair-dryer, and flies from his Idaho home to Japan."