There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective Zeppelinistic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
The earliest known use of the adjective Zeppelinistic is in the 1930s.
OED's only evidence for Zeppelinistic is from 1930, in the writing of Rudyard Kipling, writer and poet.
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- Zeppelined, adj.1915–
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- Zeppelinist, n.1912–
- Zeppelinistic, adj.1930–
- Zeppelinite, n.1909–
- zeppole, n.1835–
- zepto-, comb. form
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1930–
Resembling a Zeppelin in shape.
Stressed as ˌZeppeliˈnistic.
1930
He called Saint Jubanus a militarist and an impostor—this defaitist of a Zeppelinistic belly!
R. Kipling, Miracle of St. Jubanus 7
Cake-shaped; having a rounded, flattened shape. Obsolete. rare.
= tuberous, adj.; tuberose sclerosis = tuberous sclerosis at tuberous, adj. 2.
Of the shape of a cucumber.
attributive quasi-adj. Bolt-like, bolt-shaped.
Resembling a sausage, esp. in appearance or shape; sausage-like.
Resembling a Zeppelin in shape.
Originally published as part of the entry for Zeppelin, n.
Zeppelin, n. was revised in June 2014.
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