blue balloon

An icon used by drug smugglers in the southwestern united states. It was originally a symbol used to identify those who were muling drugs across the united states border, but has sense evolved to be a symbol for smuggled drugs on the whole.

The term has gained notoriety outside the underground from a September 23rd 2006 story broken on abc's news program 20/20.

Seeing a blue balloon on a car window you know they traffic drugs.

by Joseph Timberland November 13, 2007

Blue balloons

A slang term for hundred-dollar bills, named after the blue security strip, especially when they’re thrown into the air or raining down, creating the visual effect of blue balloons floating. Commonly used to describe flashy displays of wealth, flexing, or “making it rain.”
This term was coined by the artist JEXE.

“Damn, he just walked in and started making it rain—look at all those blue balloons in the air.”

by JEXE January 18, 2026