ritz

1. informaluncountableusually preceded by theA display of ostentatious elegance.

present singular third person ritzes · participle present ritzing · participle past ritzed · past ritzed

1. informalTo behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner.

   What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?

   1937, Collier's, volume 99, page 69

   1 more example

   Fuller remembered visiting Hammond in his office. “He was dressed like a movie senator with black ribbon pince-nez. Almost ritzed me out of the office.”

   2020, Christopher Knowlton, Bubble in the Sun, page 268

plural Ritzes

1. A surname.