plotz

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/ plɒts /

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verb (used without object) Slang.

to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.

QUIZ

THINGAMABOB OR THINGUMMY: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE US AND UK TERMS IN THIS QUIZ?

Do you know the difference between everyday US and UK terminology? Test yourself with this quiz on words that differ across the Atlantic.

Question 1 of 7

In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

Origin of plotz

An Americanism first recorded in 1940–45; from Yiddish platsn literally, “to crack, split, burst,” from Middle High German blatzen, platzen

Receptionist, former lover, and still receptionist Connie Plotz deconstructs his private obsessions and cultural stereotypes.
Joshua Ferris’s New Novel Chronicles an Existential Dentist in Despair|Tom LeClair|May 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
David Plotz, the editor of Slate, makes no apology for enjoying the David Petraeus saga.
Slate Editor Admits Enjoying Petraeus Soap Opera|Howard Kurtz|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Plotz flashes back to the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, the good old days in his view.
Slate Editor Admits Enjoying Petraeus Soap Opera|Howard Kurtz|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Plotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
Is God Evil?|The Daily Beast|March 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
Invention|Bradley A. Fiske