Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to scold.

1945

J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 68: When she began to blitz him about breaking a bed-pan.

2. (orig. US) to defeat comprehensively, to crush, to overcome, to destroy; also fig. use; also adj. blitzed, destroyed.

[1939		W. Winchell On Broadway 14 Oct. [synd. col.] The next [acting] job [...] closed the next day after the critics blitzkrieged it].
1940		Topeka Journal 6 July 1: Blitz Poor Little Town Hall Mouse.
1940		‘Digg Mee’ ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 21 Sept. 10/6: [of an unsuccessful gambler] Who was the young man being blitzed at a certain ‘skin-joint’...who went home ot get his ‘owl-head’ and never returned.
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 106: It was a three-story building, but its two upper floors had been blitzed by time.
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 203: Also, he was a crank about law and order, and once in such a position with such a vast force under his control, he was likely to go beserk and blitz the entire underworld.
1984		W. Diehl Hooligans (2003) 15: Why would anybody want to blitz Leadbetter?
1989		M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 49: That gem of Walker logic blitzed him!
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 38: I suppose the crack blitzed your better judgement.
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Elvis absolutely blitzed the Canadian; smashing, choking and knocking him out in the first round.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 162: Wayne watched the shack. The rain blitzed his view.
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 106: De luca would not have dared blitz the library during the Amato era.

3. to stun, amaze.

1966		H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 85: About five times the size of the group that managed to blitz the national Press in 1965.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 36: With a power base I would’ve blitzed her.
1984		D. Jenkins Life Its Ownself (1985) 55: Few people ever blitzed Big Town quicker than Barbara Jane.
1997		S. Bellow Actual 66: Her body was terrifically sexy. She really blitzed me.

4. to arrive or leave quickly; also fig. use.

1941		C. Brackett & B. Wilder Ball of Fire [film script] Blitz it, mister. Blitz it will you?
1974		D. Ireland Burn 6: A lightning flash of bad temper blitzes from her pretty mouth.

5. to exhaust sexually.

1961

C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 113: I blitzed him, honey. You couldn’t squeeze out another drop [i.e. of semen] with a steam roller.

6. to saturate with an advertising campaign or similar form of wide-spectrum information.

1988

T. Harris Silence of the Lambs (1991) 113: The media was blitzing the story.

7. (US campus) to perform well (in an examination).

1980		Eble Campus Sl. Spring 1: blitz – make an A.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 45: In the subject area of schoolwork, the destruction terms can indicate either failure or success. ‘I bombed that last test’ means ‘did poorly’. ‘I blitzed that last test’ means ‘performed well’.

8. (UK Und.) to break into a premises for burglary.

1989

J. Morton Lowspeak 27: Blitz – to burgle or obtain entry to steal.

9. (UK black) to break, to smash.

2016

A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 9: By the time the bad lyrics between them were over, a window in Dad’s room was blitzed.

10. (Scots teen) to use intensively.

2020

G. Armstrong Young Team 62: A’ve been blitzin the eld PS2, playin Max Payne n Vice City.