What is "blitz"

blitz \blitz\ n.

1. (football) a quick move by defensive players toward the passer on the offensive team, as soon as the ball is snapped; -- it is used when the defensive teams assumes that a pass will be attempted, and risks allowing substantial gains by the offensive team if other plays are in fact planned.

   Syn: safety linebacker blitzing.

2. a rapid and violent military attack with intensive aerial bombardment. Same as blitzkrieg

3. any vigorous and intensive attack, bombardment, or assault, literally or figuratively; as, they used a blitz of television commercials to launch their new product; the German blitz on London.

   3. same as blitz chess.

"sudden overwhelming attack," 1940, shortening of blitzkrieg (1939). The use in U.S. football is from 1959. As a verb, 1940, from the noun. Related: Blitzed; blitzing.

n. 1 A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to The Blitz. 2 (context figuratively English) A sudden effort. 3 (context American football English) The action of a defensive football player who rushes the passer of the football. 4 (context chess English) blitz chess, a form of chess with a short time limit for moves. 5 A swift and overwhelming attack. vb. 1 To attack. 2 (context American football English) To rush the passer. 3 (context cooking English) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.

1. n. (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line [syn: safety blitz, linebacker blitzing]

2. a rapid and violent military attack with intensive aerial bombardment

v. attack suddenly and without warning; "Hitler blitzed Poland"

BLITZ was a British fashion and culture magazine published between 1980 and 1991.

Its contributors included the writers Paul Morley, Susannah Frankel, Jim Shelley, Simon Garfield, Ian Parker, Marc Issue, Fiona Russell Powell and Paul Mathur; photographers included Nick Knight, Russell Young, Gillian Campbell, Marcus Tomlinson, Pete Moss and Julian Simmonds; its fashion editors were Iain R Webb and Kim Bowen. Jeremy Leslie was responsible for the graphic design of the magazine from 1984 to 1989.

In American football or Canadian football, a blitz is when additional players are sent to "rush the quarterback"—that is, try to tackle the quarterback or disrupt his pass attempt. The term is borrowed from the Blitzkrieg, the German strategy of "Lightning War" employed during World War II. Like the Blitzkrieg, the blitz is a concentration of force at high speed to force a breakthrough and proceed without regard to the flanks.

Blitz is a Portuguese monthly music magazine based in Lisbon, Portugal. It is one of the early music magazines in the country

Blitz is an anarchist, communist and socialist youth community in Oslo, Norway, founded in 1982. The group has often been criticized for their use of violent methods of political protest.

Blitz is German industrial rock group KMFDM's sixteenth studio album, released on March 24, 2009, on KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. It also marks the first use of five letter song titles and a five letter album title since WWIII. The album charted after its release, as did the song "People of the Lie". Blitz had songs written in three different languages, and was moderately well received by critics. Most of its songs were remixed for the band's next release, Krieg.

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Blitz is a 2011 British crime thriller film directed by Elliott Lester, starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen and David Morrissey. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2011. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen, which features his recurring characters Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James Roberts.

Blitz is the official mascot of the Seattle Seahawks, a team in the National Football Conference of the National Football League. A large blue bird, Blitz made his debut on September 13, 1998 at the Seahawks' home opener at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington.

After his inception Brody's appearance changed slightly several times (including subtle changes in color in accordance with the team's updated color scheme implemented after moving to Qwest Field in 2002) before a dramatic facelift in 2004, in an effort to make him appear less menacing to children by introducing friendlier facial features. A new look was introduced in 2014, involving an update to Blitz's face that more closely resembles the Seahawks logo. In addition to the longstanding look of a blue anthropomorphic bird of medium height, built like a bodybuilder, and wearing a Seahawks uniform (number 0), the updated Blitz features the piercing green eyes and blue and gray head represented on the team logo.

A second mascot, named Boom, was also introduced in 2014, as an "official sidekick" to Blitz. In addition to green eyes, Boom features green hair, a backwards Seahawks cap, and a number 00 Seahawks uniform.

Since the character's introduction in 1998, Blitz has been an integral part in the Seahawks' "Ready, Set, Goals!" reading program for children. In addition to all Seahawks home games, Blitz appears at hundreds of community and charity events throughout the year. He has also appeared at the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl.

Blitz is an arcade-style game for the VIC-20 personal computer.

The first game of this genre was written for the Commodore PET by Peter Calver and published under the name Air Attack by his company, Supersoft, in 1979. At that time it was common for computer magazines to publish games listings which readers could type into their own computer, and Air Attack was also published as a listing in the December 1979 issue of Personal Computer World.

For a short period a 4-coloured transparent overlay was available which simulated colour on the black-and-white screen of the PET computer (a similar technique had previously been used in some arcade machines, notably Breakout). However, when Commodore switched from black-and-white to green screens the effect was no longer as convincing, and the overlay was discontinued.

Although the game was prompted by a verbal description of the arcade game Canyon Bomber ( Atari, 1977), it was not until many years later that Peter Calver saw the original game. The inspired change from a canyon filled with rock pillars to a city of skyscrapers was copied by all later clones including Blitz, City Bomber and City Lander (for ZX Spectrum, C64 and ZX-81). 'Blitz' was published by Commodore themselves for the Vic-20, then Blitz-64 for the Commodore 64 and Blitz-16 for the Commodore-16. Blitz was taken by Commodore from 'Vic New York' written by Simon Taylor/TaySoft. Taylor later produced versions for the CBM-64 and CBM-16.

Blitz was a street punk/ Oi! band from New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They had success in the United Kingdom indie charts in the early 1980s. With both punk and skinhead members, they were enthusiastically championed by Sounds magazine writer Garry Bushell, though guitarist Alan "Nidge" Miller would later go on to denounce Bushell. Although considered an influential Oi! band, the band members simply described themselves as a punk band. They signed to the record label No Future in 1981, and their first release was the 7" EP All Out Attack.

Several years after the original Blitz lineup split, guitarist Miller recruited new members including Paul Lilley on drums and performed concerts under the Blitz moniker. On 10 February 2007, Miller was struck by a car and died on impact after walking onto a freeway after a show in Austin, Texas. In 2011, bassist Neil "Mackie" McLennan moved to guitar and formed the band Epic Problem, based in New Mills. They have released a couple of EPs and an album.Epic Problem have videos on YouTube.

Blitz is a Brazilian rock band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles (Você não soube me amar, A dois passos do paraíso, Ana Maria (biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho)) kick-starting the 1980s movement that would later be called "BRock". Its "classic" formation included Evandro Mesquita ( voice), Lobão ( drums, later Roberto "Juba" Gurgel), Antônio Pedro Fortuna ( bass, formerly with Os Mutantes and Lulu Santos), William Forghieri ( keyboards) and Fernanda Abreu and Márcia Bulcão ( backing vocals).

Blitz is a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service ( SaaS) that allows developers to "rush" ( load test) a Web app or Web API with up to 200,000 concurrent users within seconds from multiple points of presence around the world. The tool allows users to test web applications, websites, and APIs to identify infrastructure weaknesses.

Blitz, was a popular investigative weekly tabloid newspaper published and edited by Russi Karanjia from Bombay. It was India's first weekly tabloid started in 1941 focussed on investigative journalism and political news. It was published in English, and with editions in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi languages. It ceased publication several years before Karanjia's death in mid-1990s, although there were some attempts to revive it.

Started on February 1, 1941, it was a pioneer in investigative journalism in India, Cartoonist R. K. Laxman's early cartoons were published in Blitz as did Abu Abraham. Noted writer K. A. Abbas wrote popular column "Last Page", which ran for over 40 years. P. Sainath, worked as deputy editor with Blitz for over a decade, before starting his career in writing for rural poverty and later winning the Magsaysay Award.

Later in 1975, Blitz also started a film magazine, Cine Blitz, with, Karanjia's daughter Rita Mehta as its editor. In 1983, criminal-politicians Gopal Rajwani and Pappu Kalani executed the brutal knife murder of the A V Narayan, sub-editor of Blitz.

Karanjia founded a morning tabloid called The Daily for some years. After reaching its peak in the 1980s, the Blitz dipped in the 1990s. In 1996, Karl Mehta, then managing director and publisher, and Karanajia's son-in-law tied up with the London-based Daily Mirror group in a reciprocal agreement, which allowed it to publish, news from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Independent and People magazine. At the time, liquor baron Vijay Mallya owned 8% stake in Blitz.

Karanjia died on February 1, 2008, on the same day he started his newspaper 67 years ago.

The Bangladesh tabloid with the same name is unrelated.

Blitz is the surname of:

• Andy Blitz (born 1971), writer, actor and comedian
• David Blitz, philosopher
• Maurice Blitz (1891–1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player
• Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (1912–1990), founder of Club Med
• Gérard Blitz (swimmer) (1901–1979), swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
• Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter
• Jekuthiel Blitz, translator of Bible into Yiddish 1678
• Johnny Blitz, punk rock drummer
• Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), Belgian-American conductor
• Phil Blitz (born 1984), professional wrestler
• Rayner Blitz (born 1968), cricketer
• Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur
• Urban Blitz (born 1951), British rock musician
• Wilhelm Biltz (1877–1943), German chemist and scientific editor