Definitions

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  • proper noun The series of air raids launched on various cities in Britain (not just London) by the German airforce in 1940-1. They were also known as the Baedeker Raids.

Etymologies

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Short for Blitzkrieg.

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Examples

  • Your response in Blitz is a Book on your life, with you telling people well this is true because I did this and it counts for that.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • "Blitz" is short for blitzkrieg, a German word coined in 1939 that means "lightning war."

    "Incent" incenses my senses doyle 2009

  • "Blitz" is short for blitzkrieg, a German word coined in 1939 that means "lightning war."

    Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009

  • Before getting to the video, know Jeffrey Blitz is only executive producing the project and Mac Carter is directing.

    Exclusive: Director Jeffrey Blitz and Producer Sean Welch are Making a Documentary About the History of DC Comics and it Will Premiere at Comic-Con! – Collider.com 2010

  • The upshot, as Angus Calder wrote in his seminal 1991 The Myth of the Blitz, is that “no archive of such abundance exists for any other ‘major event’ in British history.”

    Black Saturday 2008

  • The upshot, as Angus Calder wrote in his seminal 1991 The Myth of the Blitz, is that “no archive of such abundance exists for any other ‘major event’ in British history.”

    Black Saturday 2008

  • The adult lives in our future, with his 12 year old past being our present (and the Blitz is everyone's past.)

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • The adult lives in our future, with his 12 year old past being our present (and the Blitz is everyone's past.)

    London Calling 2006

  • His book, Into the Blitz, is an account of his experiences and observations during a trip to England and the European battlefront, including the Atlantic crossings, and his connection with and sympathy for the merchant seamen impelled him to donate to the Navy League of Canada for these brave men the entire royalties from this book.

    What Is the Navy Doing? 1942

  • The Venom & Song Blitz is NOW: Tuesday, June 22nd, 7pm EST!!

    Archive 2009-03-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009

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