blitz baby
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person born in the United Kingdom during the heavy German bombing raids (the Blitz) of World War II.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of blitz baby.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of blitz baby.
Example Sentences
- "I was a blitz baby, myself. I lived on rations when I was growing up."
- "A Blitz Baby—his middle name was an homage to England's wartime prime minister—he was born in October 1940 during a brief lull in the German Luftwaffe's all-out effort to reduce England's strategic port city of Liverpool to rubble."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
blitz babies (plural)