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blitz verb- to intensively campaign for and achieve maximum public awareness UK
From German blitzkrieg (a lightning war). - Beatlemania, having blitzed the UK, swept the world. — Uncut, p. 44, February 2002
- to defeat someone soundly US, 1940
- The Mountaineers led 14–9 before being blitzed 74–53. — Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail, p. B1, 22 March 2004
- in horse racing, to win convincingly AUSTRALIA
- The filly fair dinkum blitzed them. — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 8, 1989
- in tiddlywinks, to pot all six winks of one colour before the
20-minute time-limit has elapsed and thus score an easy victory US - — C.W.Edwards, sometime Secretary of the English Tiddlywinks Association, Glossary, 1980
- in gin, to win and leave an opponent scoreless US
- — Irwin Steig, Play Gin to Win, p. 138, 1971
- in bar dice games, to bet the total amount of the pot US
- — Jester Smith, Games They Play in San Francisco, p. 103, 1971
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