plotz
[ plots ]
verb (used without object)Slang.
to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
Origin of plotz
1An Americanism first recorded in 1940–45; from Yiddish platsn literally, “to crack, split, burst,” from Middle High German blatzen, platzen
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How to use plotz in a sentence
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 | THE DAILY BEASTDavid 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 | THE DAILY BEASTplotz 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 | THE DAILY BEASTplotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and plotz that of typhus fever.
Invention | Bradley A. Fiske
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