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plotz
[ plots ]
verb (used without object)
, Slang.
- to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of plotz1
An Americanism first recorded in 1940–45; from Yiddish platsn literally, “to crack, split, burst,” from Middle High German blatzen, platzen
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Example Sentences
Receptionist, former lover, and still receptionist Connie Plotz deconstructs his private obsessions and cultural stereotypes.
From The Daily Beast
David Plotz, the editor of Slate, makes no apology for enjoying the David Petraeus saga.
From The Daily Beast
Plotz flashes back to the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, the good old days in his view.
From The Daily Beast
Plotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
From The Daily Beast
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
From Project Gutenberg
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