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fritz

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Fritz

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[ frits ]

noun

  1. Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a German, especially a German soldier.
  2. a male given name.
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Sensitive Note

Fritz was a nickname used by Allied soldiers for a German soldier during World War I and II.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fritz1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; of obscure origin

Origin of fritz2

1910–15; < German; common nickname for Friedrich
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on the fritz, Informal. not in working order:

    Our TV went on the fritz last night.

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see on the blink (fritz) .
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Example Sentences

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Strangers confuse him with another Austrian-born director, Fritz Lang, and Pabst’s American movie, “A Modern Hero,” fashioned from a script he loathes, is a flop.

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His friend Kassandra Fritz, an 18-year-old natural sciences student, says she has driven to Uppsala from her home in Gävle, two hours north, to "have fun and meet new people".

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Don’t miss, for instance, a food replicator on the fritz, where holographic tea will consistently fail to properly materialize.

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In Miami he beat three top-10 players in Djokovic, Britain's Jack Draper and American Taylor Fritz to lift the biggest title of his career, and handled the pressure of the occasion well.

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Saugus 18, Canyon Country Canyon 0: Matthew Carta hit wo doubles and finished with four RBIs while Lincoln Fritz added three hits for the Centurions.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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