• Finnish: salamahyökkäys

Verb

1. To attack.
2. To rush the passer.
3. (culinary) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.

   To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.

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), 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 football-themed Beanie Baby 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 "Blitz" Ellsworth of U.S. thrash metal 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
• The Blitz (TBWNN album), First album released by Christian band 'thebandwithnoname'

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
• Blitz (car tuning), a Japanese company who specialises in automotive performance modifications

Related to business:

• Blitz Soft, a Romanian software company

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