| 释义 |
▪ I. blitz, n.|blɪts|
[Short for Blitzkrieg.]
An attack or offensive launched suddenly with great violence with the object of reducing the defences immediately; spec. an air-raid or a series of them conducted in this way, esp. the series of air-raids made on London in 1940. Also attrib.
1940Daily Express 9 Sept. 1 Blitz bombing of London goes on all night. Ibid. 10 Sept. 1/1 In his three-day blitz on London Goering has now lost 140 planes. 1940Daily Sketch 21 Sept. 8/3 Neighbourhood Theatre braved the blitz and yesterday presented a new play. 1941New Statesman 15 Feb. 160/3 The Home Guard of young architects who spent the night of the City ‘blitz’ battering out Hitler's incendiaries. 1944Ourselves in Wartime viii. 177 All under five, many born since the beginning of the war, ‘blitz’ babies knew instinctively that the ground floor was safest. 1958New Statesman 22 Feb. 223/3 Depopulation..began even before the war and the blitz.
b. transf. and fig.
1940Topeka Jrnl. 19 Apr. 4/4 Setting the stage for a ‘blitz’ comeback. 1941Wyndham Lewis Let. 16 Apr. (1963) 288 At the time I was going through a minor economic Blitz of my own. 1960Guardian 30 Dec. 10/5 The women did only the bare essentials of housework during the week, with a ‘blitz’ at weekends.
c. N. Amer. Football. A charge by one or more defensive backs into the offensive backfield, esp. to prevent or disrupt a passing play.
1963S. Huff Defensive Football viii. 98 Red-dogging answers to many names: storm, blitz, shooting, stunting. 1966Rote & Winter Lang. Pro Football iii. 104 Blitz, surprise defensive maneuver where one or more linebackers and/or defensive backfield men charge across line of scrimmage after ball carrier. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. d3/4 Left linebacker Bobby Bell pulled a blitz and first Colt he touched was Unitas. 1976Webster's Sports Dict. 44/2 A blitz is sometimes successful in stopping a running play when an extra defensive player suddenly appears in the offensive backfield. 1984Washington Post 22 Jan. b7 Send the corners on an all-out blitz.
▪ II. blitz, v.|blɪts|
[f. prec.]
a. To attack with a blitz; to hit, blast, destroy, etc., by an air-raid.
1939in Amer. Speech (1940) XV. 110/2 Formal committee chairmen must have known how the poor Poles felt when the German blitzkrieg suddenly started ‘blitzing’ around their ears yesterday noon. 1940Daily Sketch 2 Sept. 7 We ‘blitz’ hun planes in week-end raids. 1942Ann. Reg. 1941 100, 70,000 meals had to be provided by the Emergency kitchens for people ‘blitzed’ out of their homes. 1945‘G. Orwell’ in Contemp. Jewish Record VIII. 165 The Jewish quarter of Whitechapel was one of the first areas to be heavily blitzed.
b. N. Amer. Football. intr. To mount a blitz or blitzes (sense c); to charge the offensive backfield.
1965Sports Illustr. 4 Jan. 11/2 The Browns, a team that seldom blitzes, blitzed more often in this game. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 17/3 Lombardi said Oakland played generally as he expected ‘although they did blitz a little more than we anticipated’. 1984Washington Post 30 Jan. c1 Pro Bowl rules do not allow defenses to blitz. ‘Without blitzing,’ said Martin, ‘it was his kind of day.’
So blitzed |blɪtst| ppl. a., attacked or destroyed by a blitz; ˈblitzing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈblitzer, a defensive back who blitzes.
1940Daily Express 6 Dec. 1/6 A south coast town felt the heaviest weight of last night's Nazi blitzing. 1941War Illustr. 30 Dec. 377 For the past few months demolition squads have been working on this heavily blitzed site. 1955Times 25 Aug. 5/4 Local authorities..decided to recondition 30,000 sub-standard houses in ‘blitzed or blighted’ areas. 1960Sports Illustr. 4 Jan. 14/3 The Giants might have chased Unitas out of this formation by blitzing — sending the linebacker in after him to get him before he could throw. 1963R. Smith Pro Football xiii. 166 Conerly of the Giants dodged and ducked the blitzing Colts. 1968N.Y. Times 6 Sept. 51 He's blocked well, picked up blitzers, caught the ball and has been a very quick runner with a good cut. 1968H. Higdon Pro Football v. 159 Chuck Drulis, our defensive coach, was the innovator of the safety blitz with Larry Wilson doing the blitzing. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. iii. 12/2 Fullback Russell Davis, bursting up the middle against swarming blitzers, led Michigan's ground game with 110 yards in 19 tries. 1984N.Y. Times 16 Jan. c7/2 The Redskins are not a big blitzing team. |