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Blitz   /blɪts/   Listen
Blitz

noun
1.
(American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line.  Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz.
2.
A swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment.  Synonym: blitzkrieg.
verb
1.
Attack suddenly and without warning.



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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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