thinks balloon
chiefly British
noun
(In a comic-strip cartoon or similar illustration) a circle resembling a balloon or bubble floating above a character's head and containing the character's thought in direct speech, originally following the word ‘thinks’.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Spectator.
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