blitz
/blɪts/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town."
- "Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal."
- "He [Yoshihide Suga] seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity."
- "Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules."
- "As well as its revamped search bar, Google unveiled a blitz of other innovations that point to the longer-term evolution of the product."
- "What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site."
Etymology
Pseudo-Germanism, derived from a clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”). The German word Blitz (“lightning”) lacks the "sudden attack" senses that the English word has.