BLITZ


Meaning of BLITZ in English

blitz /blɪts/ BrE AmE noun [countable usually singular]

[ Date: 1900-2000 ; Origin: blitzkrieg ]

1 . a sudden military attack, especially from the air

the Blitz (=the bombing of British cities by German aircraft in 1940 and 1941)

2 . informal a period of great effort in order to deal with something quickly and completely

blitz on

We’ll have to have a blitz on the house before your parents arrive.

3 . a big effort to make people notice something or buy something

a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz

The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.

—blitz verb [transitive] :

News came that Rotterdam had been blitzed.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.