Blitz (disambiguation)

Blitz, the German word for lightning, and often used figuratively as in blitzschnell (as fast as lightning), may mean any of a number of things in English:

Related Topics:
German - Lightning - English

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• Blitz (NFL Mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks
• Blitzkrieg, the "lightning war" strategy of WWII Germany
• The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII
• Baedeker Blitz, the reprisal bombing of strategically unimportant but picturesque British cities
• Blitz (American football), a defensive maneuver in American football
• Blitz chess, a fast chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player
• Blitz BASIC, a fast dialect of the BASIC programming language
• Blitz (game), a card game
• Blitz (Computer Game), a bombing game for the Commodore PET
• Blitz may also refer to the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George
• out of production truck modells by Opel and Bedford Trucks/Buses
• BlitzMail is the name of the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
• Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• A common nickname for the BlitzBasic series of programming languages.

In English, blitz is also used as a verb, meaning to attack something rapidly, usually in a bathetic sense, as with 'nuke' or 'exterminate', i.e. one might 'blitz' housework, lunch, or ants. For political reasons, military commanders avoid the terms 'blitz' and 'blitzkrieg' when referring to actual military operations.

Related Topics:
Blitz - Bathetic - Nuke

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