Blitz

Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:

In warfare

Blitzkrieg, a rapid attack by combined forces, used by Germany in the Second World War
The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War

People

Blitz (surname), a list of people
Bobby Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician known as Blitz

Computing

Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service (SaaS)

Video games

World of Tanks Blitz, a mobile version of World of Tanks for tablets and smartphones
Blitz (video game), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20
Blitz: The League, a 2005 American football game series developed by Midway Games
Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer
Bejeweled Blitz
Tetris Blitz

Sports

American football

Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive maneuver
Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team
Chicago Blitz, a United States Football League team in the 1980s
London Blitz (American football), a London-based team
Montreal Blitz, a women's team
Syracuse Blitz, former Professional Indoor Football League team
The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the Seattle Seahawks

Other sports

Blitz defence, a defensive technique used in rugby union
Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team

Music

Blitz (British band), a British punk rock band
Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
Blitz (KMFDM album), 2009
Blitz (Étienne Daho album)
Blitz! (musical), by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
Blitz Club, a techno nightclub in Munich, Germany
The Blitz (Krokus album), 1984
The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album), 2002

Toys and games

Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted only five minutes
Blitz (game), a card game
Blitz, an American football themed Beanie Baby

Characters

Blitz, the alter-ego of George in the web comic Bob and George
Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S.
Zorin Blitz, from the manga Hellsing
Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
Blitz, the villain in the 2011 film of the same name
the Blitz, in the "Blitzgiving" episode of the TV show How I Met Your Mother
Blitz, a playable character in the video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Companies

Blitz Games, British computer games company
Blitz Research, New Zealand software company

Other

SMS Blitz (1882), an Imperial German Navy light cruiser
Blitz (film), a 2011 film starring Jason Statham
Blitz, alternative title of the 1986 Michael Verhoeven film Killing Cars
Blitz, a 1980s night club in London (see Blitz Kids)
Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
BLITZ, an influential British "style" magazine of the 1980s
Blitz (magazine), a Portuguese music magazine, started in 1984 as a newspaper
Blitz (newspaper), Indian investigative newspaper, started in 1941 by Russi Karanjia
Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper
Opel Blitz, a German lorry built by Opel

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