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Definition of balloon verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

balloon

verb
/bəˈlun/ balloon pronunciation American
 
1 [intransitive] balloon (out/up) to suddenly swell out or get biggerHer skirt ballooned out in the wind.Unemployment ballooned to fourteen percent.2 [intransitive] usually go ballooning to travel in a hot-air balloon as a sport