Meanings
blitz baby1
plural blitz babies
- A person born in the United Kingdom during the heavy German bombing raids (the Blitz) of World War II.
I was a blitz baby, myself. I lived on rations when I was growing up.
1957 October 14, Times Editor, “The New Pictures”, in Time, page 1121 more example
A Blitz Baby—his middle name was an homage to England's wartime prime minister—he was born in October 1940 during a brief lull in the German Luftwaffe's all-out effort to reduce England's strategic port city of Liverpool to rubble.
2020, The Editors of PEOPLE, “John”, in PEOPLE Celebrating Beatlemania, page 27
Blitz baby2
Blitz Baby3
plural Blitz Babies
- Alternative letter-case form of blitz baby.
A Blitz Baby—his middle name was an homage to England's wartime prime minister—he was born in October 1940 during a brief lull in the German Luftwaffe's all-out effort to reduce England's strategic port city of Liverpool to rubble.
2020, The Editors of PEOPLE, “John”, in PEOPLE Celebrating Beatlemania, page 27
Origin
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