plotz
[plots]
- to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
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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
Contemporary Examples
Plotz flashes back to the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, the good old days in his view.
Plotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
Historical Examples
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
InventionBradley A. Fiske