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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

blitz / blits/ • n. an intensive or sudden military attack. ∎ inf. a sudden, energetic, and concerted effort, typically on a specific task: a major press blitz. ∎ Football a charge of the passer by the defensive linebackers just after the ball is snapped. ∎ (the Blitz) the German air raids on Britain in 1940. • v. [tr.] (often be blitzed) attack or damage (a place or building) in a blitz: news came that Rotterdam had been blitzed fig. organizations blitzed Capitol Hill with mailgrams and postcards. ∎ Football attack (the passer) in a blitz.

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blitz

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

blitz n.
1. an intensive or sudden military attack.

2. the Blitz the German air raids on Britain in 1940.
abbreviation of Blitzkrieg.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

blitz shortening of G. blitzkrieg ‘lightning-war’. XX.

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blitz

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

blitz •congrats, stats •ersatz • Graz •godets, Metz, pantalettes (US pantalets) •Odets •Bates, Fates, Gates, Trucial States, United States, Yeats •annates •eats, Keats •foresheets •Biarritz, blitz, Fritz, glitz, it's, its, Ritz, spitz, spritz, St Kitts •blewits • Colditz • rickets • giblets •Austerlitz • Chemnitz • Leibniz •Massachusetts • slivovitz •Clausewitz • Auschwitz • Horowitz •Golan Heights • house lights •footlights •Scots, Watts •Cinque Ports, orts, quartz •undershorts •thereabouts, whereabouts •Coats, John o'Groats, Oates •Hakenkreuz •cahoots, Schütz •slyboots •kibbutz, Lutz, Perutz, putz •futz, klutz, Smuts •Roberts • polyunsaturates •deserts, Hertz •megahertz • kilohertz • outskirts •Weltschmerz •draughts (US drafts) •Helmholtz • schmaltz •Schulz •Hants, Northants, pants •sweatpants • smarty-pants •shin splints • Mainz • Y-fronts •arrondissements • Barents

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