Blitz 4536 225656313 2008-07-14T19:33:27Z Boffob 2045949 rm non-notable and/or unverifiable {{wiktionarypar|blitz}} '''Blitz''', German for "[[lightning]]" or "very fast", may refer to: *[[Blitzkrieg]], the "very fast executed war", a 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 *[[Belfast Bomb Blitz]] better known as Bloody Friday. The Provisional IRA sets off 22 bombs in Belfast killing 9 people *[[Blitz chess]], a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player *[[Blitz Games]], British computer games company *[[Blitz BASIC]], a dialect of the BASIC programming language *[[Blitz (game)]], a card game *[[Blitz (Computer Game)]], a bombing game for the Commodore PET *Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic [[Bob and George]] *[[BlitzMail]], the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College *''[[The Weekly Blitz]]'', a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper edited by [[Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury]] *[[Blitz (newspaper)]], a Portuguese music newspaper *Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see [[Blitz Kids]] *''Blitz'', the codename of GDR spy [[Hüseyin Yıldırım]] *[[Blitz (character)]], a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon ''Road Rovers'' *[[Blitz (movement)]], a radical youth movement in Norway. They are often compared to the UK anarchists from the seventies *[[London Blitz (computer game)|''London Blitz'' (computer game)]], a 1983 strategy game for the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 *[[Blitz (magazine)]], a weekly "what's on" magazine published by [[Arc @ UNSW]] at the [[University of New South Wales]] *[[Blitz++]], a C++ class library for scientific computing In '''sports''': *[[Blitz (American football)]], a defensive maneuver in American football *[[Blitz (NFL Mascot)]], the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks *''[[NFL Blitz]]'', an American football game series developed by Midway Games *''[[Blitz: The League]]'', a later American football game series developed by Midway Games after the National Football League signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts *Blitz, a two-hand technique in [[semicontact]] fighting sports *[[London Blitz (American football)]], a London-based American football team *[[Utah Blitzz]], former professional soccer team *[[The Blitz (television)]], a TV show on ESPNEWS *[[Blitz (Beanie Baby)]], a [[American football|football-themed]] [[Beanie Baby]] [[teddy bear|bear]] produced by [[Ty, Inc.]] *Blitz - The name of the ultraviolent sport in the game [[Deathrow]] for the Xbox In '''music''': *[[Blitz! (musical)]], a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz *[[Blitz (band)]], a British punk rock band *[[Blitz (Brazilian band)]], a new wave Brazilian band from the eighties *[[Bobby Ellsworth|Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth]] of U.S. thrash metal band [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]] *[[Julien Paul Blitz]] (1885–1951), a Belgian-American conductor *[[WBZX]], 99.7 "The Blitz", common call term used for the Columbus, OH radio station WBZX Relating to '''vehicles''': *[[Opel Blitz]], a German light truck built from 1930 to 1973 *[[Bedford Blitz]], a truck manufactured by [[Bedford Vehicles]] *Blitz, nickname for both Ford and Chevrolet [[Canadian Military Pattern trucks]] made for use in WW2 Related to '''business''': *[[Blitz Soft]], a Romanian software company {{disambig}} [[Category:German loanwords]] [[de:Blitz (Begriffsklärung)]] [[fr:Blitz (homonymie)]] [[he:בליץ]] [[nl:Blitz]] [[no:Blitz (andre betydninger)]] [[pt:Blitz (desambiguação)]] [[fi:Blitz]]