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.