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noun

blitz n.

(football) A quick move by defensive players toward the passer on the offensive team, as soon as the ball is snapped; it is used when the defensive teams assumes that a pass will be attempted, and risks allowing substantial gains by the offensive team if other plays are in fact planned.

Synonyms: safety linebacker blitzing.

A rapid and violent military attack with intensive aerial bombardment. Same as blitzkrieg

Any vigorous and intensive attack, bombardment, or assault, literally or figuratively; as, they used a blitz of television commercials to launch their new product; the German blitz on London.

Same as blitz chess.

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Etymology of 'Blitz'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blitz" Quotes from Famous Books

... good old Signor Blitz, and not far away is the plot that holds all that is mortal of my beloved parents. When I finally break away from earthly chains and restraints, I hope ...

— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini

... towards Belgravia—musical daughters—Herr Moscheles, Benedick, Ella,—Osborne, constantly at dinner-sonatas in P flat (op. 936), composed and dedicated to Miss Euphemia Baines, by her most obliged, most obedient servant, Ferdinando Blitz. Baines hopes that his young friend will come constantly to York Terrace, where the most girls will be happy to see him; and mentions at home a singular whim of Colonel Newcome's, who can give his son twelve or fifteen hundred a year, and makes an artist of him. Euphemia ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... this will carry into the minds of the young! Blitz, the conjurer, the kind-hearted Blitz, who dispenses his sugar things amongst his young friends with such a smile—and they are real sugar things, too; they don't slip through your fingers, except in the direction of your mouth, like ...

— Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 • Various

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