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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

... object that they rather represent the material trot of a cart-horse than the course of a phantom steed. But we must not be too exact with these pen-and-ink gentry. Well, then, with this single exception, you will find no poetry in me, except a few of the great Schiller's striking lines: Potz Blitz, das ist ja die Gustel von Blasewitz. There's much ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... Broadway, on the right going down and not much below Fourth Street (except that everything seems to me to have been just below Fourth Street when not just above,) with the scene of my great public exposure somewhat later, the wonderful exhibition of Signor Blitz, the peerless conjurer, who, on my attending his entertainment with W. J. and our frequent comrade of the early time "Hal" Coster, practised on my innocence to seduce me to the stage and there plunge me into the shame of my sad failure to account arithmetically for his bewilderingly subtracted ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

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