plotz
[ plots ]
/ plɒts /
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verb (used without object) Slang.
to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
Nearby words
plottage, plotter, plotting board, plotting sheet, plotty, plotz, plotzed, plough, plough back, plough monday, ploughboy
Origin of plotz
1940–45, Americanism; < Yiddish platsn literally, to crack, split, burst < Middle High German blatzen, platzen
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Examples from the Web for plotz
Plotz flashes back to the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, the good old days in his view.
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
Invention|Bradley A. Fiske