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scout balloon

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scout balloon (plural scout balloons)

  1. Synonym of observation balloon
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 51:
      Scout balloons hung in the sky above the tree line and lightning crashed in the distance like some faint reminder of a natural world.