blitz
See also: Blitz
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Shortened from blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.
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blitz (countable and uncountable, plural blitzes)
- (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
- (countable) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
- We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.
- 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.
- 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times[3]:
- Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
- (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
- (uncountable, chess) Short for blitz chess.
- 2013 June 24, Mark Samuelian, “Speed Chess Changed My Brain”, in The Atlantic[4]:
- What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.
- 2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2 (Reflections on My Profession):
- In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.
- (cooking) The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
- (fishing) An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.
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swift and overwhelming attack
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blitz (third-person singular simple present blitzes, present participle blitzing, simple past and past participle blitzed)
- (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
- Synonym: charge
- (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.
- The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.
- (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
- Synonym: zhoosh
- To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.
- Synonyms: hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
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blitz
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Declension of blitz
common gender |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | blitz | blitzen |
genitive | blitz' | blitzens |
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.
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blitz m (invariable)
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.
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blitz f (invariable)
- random checkpoint (a hastily set-up point along a road where the police stop random drivers)
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blitz m (plural blitz)