Definitions for Blitz

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Spelling: [blits]

IPA: /blɪts/

Blitz is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Blitz (biltz).

Definitions for Blitz

noun

1. Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
2. any swift, vigorous attack, barrage, or defeat:
3. Football. act or instance of charging directly for (the passer) as soon as the ball is snapped; red-dogging.
4. bingo.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack or defeat with or as if with a blitz:
2. to destroy; demolish:

verb (used without object)

1. Football. to charge directly and immediately at the passer; red-dog.
2. to move in the manner of a blitz:

Origin of Blitz

First recorded in 1935-40; shortening of blitzkrieg

Examples for Blitz

The blitz begins Monday at 11 p.m. EST with J. Cole in Queens.

Remember how we used to mix it with them Jerry bandits tryin' to blitz London?

That fall, soon after the German blitz on London began, Kennedy headed back to the U.S.

In one ad blitz, former employees at a closed steel mill call Romney and Bain job destroyers and economic vampires.

blitz—for blitz it was—whined his receipt for the red token, backed from the aperture, and padded away like the wind.

I collected bits of them, but my blitz was safely vicarious.

It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London blitz was irritating.

No transport could get nearer than where the blitz is lying, four miles out.'

His news was that the blitz's steam-cutter had come in on the morning tide, and he had met von Brning when marketing at the inn.

The hull of the blitz loomed up, and a minute later our kedge was splashing overboard and the launch was backing alongside.