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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

... pockets were full of articles with which to astonish the uninitiated. He, who introduced or invented a new trick or puzzle, was the hero of the shops for a day; and for many days after, as soon as learned, the men and boys were confounding each other by its performance. In those days Signor Blitz was travelling the country, giving his necromantic shows, and left behind him everywhere a taste for his wonderful performances. Our ingenuity was exercised in weaving watch chains in various patterns with silk twist; in making handsome bats for ball, and in making ...

— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee

... he went on. "You'll pardon me if I say anything to give you offence, but you'll understand the reason why. On the day when we all lunched together at the Restaurant Blitz—you, Madame your aunt, your friend Monsieur Reggie Bradford, and I—I was a little jealous of some understanding between you two, in which I was not included. You spoke together in whispers, and exchanged glances ...

— The Inner Shrine • Basil King

... settlements to gaze upon the tiny man. One poor Irishwoman insisted "that he was not a human crathur, but a poor fairy changeling, and that he would vanish away some day, and never be heard of again." Signor Blitz, the great conjuror, occasionally pays us a visit, but his visits are like angel visits, few and far between. His performance never fails in filling the large room in the court-house for several successive nights, and his own purse. Then we have lecturers from the ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... finer tonic than cold water, no more exhilarating sensation than that produced by the artistic application of alternating douches and the blitz. ...

— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr

... "Donner and blitz! I'm glad for der poy, but sorry for you," added the watch-maker, as he took from the safe the shot-bag ...

— The Coming Wave - The Hidden Treasure of High Rock • Oliver Optic