blitzn.

Brit.

/blɪts/, U.S.

/blɪts/

Etymology: Short for blitzkrieg n.

a. 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 attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words

bruntc1425

assaultc1449

battery1562

onset1566

brash1573

breach1578

onslaught1613

onfall1646

attack1653

assay?1705

to return to the charge1752

arietation1797

set-to1808

set1829

dead set1835

go-in1858

on-ding1871

hatchet work1938

blitzkrieg1939

blitz1940

carpet bombing1956

bowling1959

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > type of

terror raid1917

blitzkrieg1939

blitz1940

fire-blitz1940

fire-raid1940

Baedeker raid1942

nuisance raid1942

thunderbolt raid1943

1940 Daily Express 9 Sept. 1 Blitz bombing of London goes on all night.

1940 Daily Express 10 Sept. 1/1 In his three-day blitz on London Goering has now lost 140 planes.

1940 Daily Sketch 21 Sept. 8/3 Neighbourhood Theatre braved the blitz and yesterday presented a new play.

1941 New Statesman 15 Feb. 160/3 The Home Guard of young architects who spent the night of the City ‘blitz’ battering out Hitler's incendiaries.

1944 Ourselves 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.

1958 New Statesman 22 Feb. 223/3 Depopulation..began even before the war and the blitz.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1940 Topeka Jrnl. 19 Apr. 4/4 Setting the stage for a ‘blitz’ comeback.

1941 W. Lewis Let. 16 Apr. (1963) 288 At the time I was going through a minor economic Blitz of my own.

1960 Guardian 30 Dec. 10/5 The women did only the bare essentials of housework during the week, with a ‘blitz’ at weekends.

c. American Football. A charge by one or more defensive backs into the offensive backfield, esp. to prevent or disrupt a passing play.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1857

punt-out1861

goal-kicking1871

safety1879

safety touchdown1879

scrimmage1880

rushing1882

safety touch1884

touchback1884

forward pass1890

run1890

blocking1891

signal1891

fake1893

onside kick1895

tandem-play1895

pass play1896

spiral1896

shift1901

end run1902

straight-arm1903

quarterback sneak1904

runback1905

roughing1906

Minnesota shift1910

quarterbacking1910

snap-back1910

pickoff1912

punt return1914

screen forward pass1915

screen pass1920

power play1921

sneak1921

passback1922

snap1922

defence1923

reverse1924

carry1927

lateral1927

stiff-arm1927

zone1927

zone defence1927

submarine charge1928

squib1929

block1931

pass rushing1933

safetying1933

trap play1933

end-around1934

straight-arming1934

trap1935

mousetrap1936

buttonhook1938

blitzing1940

hand-off1940

pitchout1946

slant1947

strike1947

draw play1948

shovel pass1948

bootleg1949

option1950

red dog1950

red-dogging1951

rollout1951

submarine1952

sleeper pass1954

draw1956

bomb1960

swing pass1960

pass rush1962

blitz1963

spearing1964

onsides kick1965

takeaway1967

quarterback sack1968

smash-mouth1968

veer1968

turn-over1969

bump-and-run1970

scramble1971

sack1972

nose tackle1975

nickel1979

pressure1981

1963 S. Huff Defensive Football viii. 98 Red-dogging answers to many names: storm, blitz, shooting, stunting.

1966 K. Rote & J. 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.

1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. d3/4 Left linebacker Bobby Bell pulled a blitz and first Colt he touched was Unitas.

1976 Webster'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.

1984 Washington Post 22 Jan. b7 Send the corners on an all-out blitz.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blitzv.

Brit.

/blɪts/, U.S.

/blɪts/

Etymology: < blitz n.

1. transitive. To attack with a blitz; to hit, blast, destroy, etc., by an air-raid. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > type of bombing

Zepp1915

zeppelin1915

blitz1939

dive-bomb1940

pattern-bomb1943

atom-bomb1945

atomic-bomb1945

firebomb1945

cluster bomb1967

1939 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 110/2 Formal committee chairmen must have known how the poor Poles felt when the German blitzkrieg suddenly started ‘blitzing’ around their ears yesterday noon.

1940 Daily Sketch 2 Sept. 7 We ‘blitz’ hun planes in week-end raids.

1942 Ann. 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 8 165 The Jewish quarter of Whitechapel was one of the first areas to be heavily blitzed.

2. intransitive. American Football. To mount a blitz or blitzes (sense c); to charge the offensive backfield.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > play American football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1873

return1884

block1889

goal1900

drive1902

interfere1920

submarine1925

lateral1927

lateral1930

pull1933

to hand off1937

shovel pass1948

bootleg1951

scramble1964

spear1964

blitz1965

convert1970

1965 Sports Illustr. 4 Jan. 11/2 The Browns, a team that seldom blitzes, blitzed more often in this game.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 17/3 Lombardi said Oakland played generally as he expected ‘although they did blitz a little more than we anticipated’.

1984 Washington Post 30 Jan. c1 Pro Bowl rules do not allow defenses to blitz. ‘Without blitzing,’ said Martin, ‘it was his kind of day.’

Derivatives

blitzed adj.

/blɪtst/ attacked or destroyed by a blitz.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.

bomb-battered1853

blitzed1941

bomb-pitted1943

bomb-damaged1945

bomb-shattered1945

atomized1946

war-damaged1946

1941 War Illustr. 30 Dec. 377 For the past few months demolition squads have been working on this heavily blitzed site.

1955 Times 25 Aug. 5/4 Local authorities..decided to recondition 30,000 sub-standard houses in ‘blitzed or blighted’ areas.

ˈblitzing n. and adj.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of

area bombardment1918

straddling1919

pattern-bombing1933

terror-bombing1933

dive-bombing1935

firebombing1935

blind-bombing1940

blitzing1940

coventrating1940

nuisance bombing1940

scatter bombing1940

coventration1942

carpet bombing1943

obliteration bombing1943

skip-bombing1943

shuttle bombing1944

atom bombing1945

atomic bombing1945

clobbering1948

loft-bombing1956

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1857

punt-out1861

goal-kicking1871

safety1879

safety touchdown1879

scrimmage1880

rushing1882

safety touch1884

touchback1884

forward pass1890

run1890

blocking1891

signal1891

fake1893

onside kick1895

tandem-play1895

pass play1896

spiral1896

shift1901

end run1902

straight-arm1903

quarterback sneak1904

runback1905

roughing1906

Minnesota shift1910

quarterbacking1910

snap-back1910

pickoff1912

punt return1914

screen forward pass1915

screen pass1920

power play1921

sneak1921

passback1922

snap1922

defence1923

reverse1924

carry1927

lateral1927

stiff-arm1927

zone1927

zone defence1927

submarine charge1928

squib1929

block1931

pass rushing1933

safetying1933

trap play1933

end-around1934

straight-arming1934

trap1935

mousetrap1936

buttonhook1938

blitzing1940

hand-off1940

pitchout1946

slant1947

strike1947

draw play1948

shovel pass1948

bootleg1949

option1950

red dog1950

red-dogging1951

rollout1951

submarine1952

sleeper pass1954

draw1956

bomb1960

swing pass1960

pass rush1962

blitz1963

spearing1964

onsides kick1965

takeaway1967

quarterback sack1968

smash-mouth1968

veer1968

turn-over1969

bump-and-run1970

scramble1971

sack1972

nose tackle1975

nickel1979

pressure1981

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [adjective] > actions or manoeuvres

end-around1934

blitzing1940

slant1947

bootleg1949

red-dogging1951

pass-rushing1961

bump-and-run1970

run-and-shoot1975

1940 Daily Express 6 Dec. 1/6 A south coast town felt the heaviest weight of last night's Nazi blitzing.

1960 Sports 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.

1963 R. Smith Pro Football xiii. 166 Conerly of the Giants dodged and ducked the blitzing Colts.

1968 H. Higdon Pro Football, USA v. 159 Chuck Drulis, our defensive coach, was the innovator of the safety blitz with Larry Wilson doing the blitzing.

1984 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. c7/2 The Redskins are not a big blitzing team.

ˈblitzer n. a defensive back who blitzes.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player

side tackle1809

nose guard1852

rusher1877

goalkicker1879

quarterback1879

runner1880

quarter1883

full back1884

left guard1884

snap-back1887

snapper-back1887

running back1891

tackle1891

defensive end1897

guard1897

interferer1897

receiver1897

defensive back1898

defensive tackle1900

safety man1901

ball carrier1902

defensive lineman1902

homebrew1903

offensive lineman1905

lineman1907

returner1911

signal caller1915

rover1916

interference1920

punt returner1926

pass rusher1928

tailback1930

safety1931

blocker1935

faker1938

scatback1946

linesman1947

flanker1953

platoon player1953

corner-back1955

pulling guard1955

split end1955

return man1957

slot-back1959

strong safety1959

wide receiver1960

line-backer1961

pocket passer1963

tight end1963

run blocker1967

wideout1967

blitzer1968

1968 N.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.

1977 Chicago 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.

Draft additions September 2016

transitive. Cookery (chiefly British). To purée or liquidize (food) in an electric blender, food processor, etc.

ΚΠ

1983 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 26 Oct. (Food section) b15/3 I blitz it in the blender and put the crumbs over fruit, ice cream or use them as cobbler topping.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 35 Remove the inner pulp from 10 passion fruits and blitz it in the food processor for a minute before straining.

2015 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Nov. (New Review) 28 Make the sauce by blitzing all the ingredients in a food processor or blender for 2 to 3 minutes, so it is fairly smooth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	blitz
释义	blitzn. Brit. /blɪts/, U.S. /blɪts/ Etymology: Short for blitzkrieg n. a. 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words bruntc1425 assaultc1449 battery1562 onset1566 brash1573 breach1578 onslaught1613 onfall1646 attack1653 assay?1705 to return to the charge1752 arietation1797 set-to1808 set1829 dead set1835 go-in1858 on-ding1871 hatchet work1938 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 carpet bombing1956 bowling1959 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > type of terror raid1917 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 fire-blitz1940 fire-raid1940 Baedeker raid1942 nuisance raid1942 thunderbolt raid1943 1940 Daily Express 9 Sept. 1 Blitz bombing of London goes on all night. 1940 Daily Express 10 Sept. 1/1 In his three-day blitz on London Goering has now lost 140 planes. 1940 Daily Sketch 21 Sept. 8/3 Neighbourhood Theatre braved the blitz and yesterday presented a new play. 1941 New Statesman 15 Feb. 160/3 The Home Guard of young architects who spent the night of the City ‘blitz’ battering out Hitler's incendiaries. 1944 Ourselves 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. 1958 New Statesman 22 Feb. 223/3 Depopulation..began even before the war and the blitz. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1940 Topeka Jrnl. 19 Apr. 4/4 Setting the stage for a ‘blitz’ comeback. 1941 W. Lewis Let. 16 Apr. (1963) 288 At the time I was going through a minor economic Blitz of my own. 1960 Guardian 30 Dec. 10/5 The women did only the bare essentials of housework during the week, with a ‘blitz’ at weekends. c. American Football. A charge by one or more defensive backs into the offensive backfield, esp. to prevent or disrupt a passing play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1963 S. Huff Defensive Football viii. 98 Red-dogging answers to many names: storm, blitz, shooting, stunting. 1966 K. Rote & J. 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. 1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. d3/4 Left linebacker Bobby Bell pulled a blitz and first Colt he touched was Unitas. 1976 Webster'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. 1984 Washington Post 22 Jan. b7 Send the corners on an all-out blitz. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blitzv. Brit. /blɪts/, U.S. /blɪts/ Etymology: < blitz n. 1. transitive. To attack with a blitz; to hit, blast, destroy, etc., by an air-raid. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > type of bombing Zepp1915 zeppelin1915 blitz1939 dive-bomb1940 pattern-bomb1943 atom-bomb1945 atomic-bomb1945 firebomb1945 cluster bomb1967 1939 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 110/2 Formal committee chairmen must have known how the poor Poles felt when the German blitzkrieg suddenly started ‘blitzing’ around their ears yesterday noon. 1940 Daily Sketch 2 Sept. 7 We ‘blitz’ hun planes in week-end raids. 1942 Ann. 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 8 165 The Jewish quarter of Whitechapel was one of the first areas to be heavily blitzed. 2. intransitive. American Football. To mount a blitz or blitzes (sense c); to charge the offensive backfield. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > play American football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres rush1873 return1884 block1889 goal1900 drive1902 interfere1920 submarine1925 lateral1927 lateral1930 pull1933 to hand off1937 shovel pass1948 bootleg1951 scramble1964 spear1964 blitz1965 convert1970 1965 Sports Illustr. 4 Jan. 11/2 The Browns, a team that seldom blitzes, blitzed more often in this game. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 17/3 Lombardi said Oakland played generally as he expected ‘although they did blitz a little more than we anticipated’. 1984 Washington Post 30 Jan. c1 Pro Bowl rules do not allow defenses to blitz. ‘Without blitzing,’ said Martin, ‘it was his kind of day.’ Derivatives blitzed adj. /blɪtst/ attacked or destroyed by a blitz. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc. bomb-battered1853 blitzed1941 bomb-pitted1943 bomb-damaged1945 bomb-shattered1945 atomized1946 war-damaged1946 1941 War Illustr. 30 Dec. 377 For the past few months demolition squads have been working on this heavily blitzed site. 1955 Times 25 Aug. 5/4 Local authorities..decided to recondition 30,000 sub-standard houses in ‘blitzed or blighted’ areas. ˈblitzing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [adjective] > actions or manoeuvres end-around1934 blitzing1940 slant1947 bootleg1949 red-dogging1951 pass-rushing1961 bump-and-run1970 run-and-shoot1975 1940 Daily Express 6 Dec. 1/6 A south coast town felt the heaviest weight of last night's Nazi blitzing. 1960 Sports 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. 1963 R. Smith Pro Football xiii. 166 Conerly of the Giants dodged and ducked the blitzing Colts. 1968 H. Higdon Pro Football, USA v. 159 Chuck Drulis, our defensive coach, was the innovator of the safety blitz with Larry Wilson doing the blitzing. 1984 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. c7/2 The Redskins are not a big blitzing team. ˈblitzer n. a defensive back who blitzes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player side tackle1809 nose guard1852 rusher1877 goalkicker1879 quarterback1879 runner1880 quarter1883 full back1884 left guard1884 snap-back1887 snapper-back1887 running back1891 tackle1891 defensive end1897 guard1897 interferer1897 receiver1897 defensive back1898 defensive tackle1900 safety man1901 ball carrier1902 defensive lineman1902 homebrew1903 offensive lineman1905 lineman1907 returner1911 signal caller1915 rover1916 interference1920 punt returner1926 pass rusher1928 tailback1930 safety1931 blocker1935 faker1938 scatback1946 linesman1947 flanker1953 platoon player1953 corner-back1955 pulling guard1955 split end1955 return man1957 slot-back1959 strong safety1959 wide receiver1960 line-backer1961 pocket passer1963 tight end1963 run blocker1967 wideout1967 blitzer1968 1968 N.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. 1977 Chicago 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. Draft additions September 2016 transitive. Cookery (chiefly British). To purée or liquidize (food) in an electric blender, food processor, etc. ΚΠ 1983 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 26 Oct. (Food section) b15/3 I blitz it in the blender and put the crumbs over fruit, ice cream or use them as cobbler topping. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 35 Remove the inner pulp from 10 passion fruits and blitz it in the food processor for a minute before straining. 2015 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Nov. (New Review) 28 Make the sauce by blitzing all the ingredients in a food processor or blender for 2 to 3 minutes, so it is fairly smooth. 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