Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition in which something does not work properly.
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- noun US, informal The state of being
defective . - noun Australia A type of processed meat
sausage ;devon - verb intransitive To
go wrong or becomedefective .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
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But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
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Edwards was back in his meteorological office, wearing his field jacket, flak jacket, and "fritz" style helmet.
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It later dawned on me that "fritz" is an ethnic slur against Germans.
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And it had to go wrong at the worst possible moment, the mics going on the fritz during the big romantic finale of all places, in "Love Lost and Found."
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In addition to the dicey plumbing, the power was frequently on the fritz.
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Anybody remember back in '92 or so when it was our own Reed College nuclear reactor on the fritz?
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As the building comes closer, the nerves fritz louder, until we are through the big chain-link gates, and walking across the frost-heaved potholed asphalt playground.
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"I loved the concept so much I bought another one when the first one went on the fritz," says an Amazon.com review of the Nine Stars DZT-50-9 13.2 gallon sensor can written by Mark Elridge, a 38-year-old computer programmer from Toronto.
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