platz

present singular third person platzes · participle present platzing · participle past platzed · past platzed

1. intransitiveTo become aggravated.

   And across Europe, there’ll be players and supporters platzing for exactly that: a positive result here, followed by a win for Belgium over Finland later on, and three points plus a goal difference of 0 will be enough to secure a spot in the knockout stage.

   2021 June 21, Daniel Harris, “Ukraine 0-1 Austria: Euro 2020 – as it happened”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2021, Preamble

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   There is a yiddish^([sic]) verb, to platz – roughly, it means to be on tenterhooks, just with all the emotional and physical incontinence that you’d expect from a language that deals principally in uncomfortable extremes. But platzing is not an Olympic sport.

   2014 July 17, Daniel Harris, “Breaking the Law: why the rule on false starts in athletics is an ass”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2017

plural platzes

1. A public square in Germany.

   "It was an ordinary semi-corner old-fashioned building on a platz," [Lee] Miller wrote in her diary.

   2007 September 1, “At home with Hitler”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2016

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   We sit at a cafe in the crisp morning air, looking down the gradually descending town square towards the gothically vertiginous fifteenth-century St Egidius church. The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall.

   2003 November 2, Tom Templeton, “Worth more than 15 minutes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021

   Once the most German and Old World flavored of the platzes, Festplatz strays from its all-polka-all-the-time roots once again to to ^([sic]) offer five nights of variety, including funk/pop, rock ‘n’ roll, country, oldies and swing.

   2006 July 30, “Zeitgeist of the platzes”, in The Morning Call, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026

1. A surname from German.

   Lilly loves everything about John Platz! He feeds her, walks her, gives her treats, and she even takes an afternoon nap with him!

   2007, Ann Platz, Queen Esther's Reflection: A Portrait of Grace, Courage, and Excellence

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   Frecklington also announced the appointment of former Queensland police officer Deborah Platz as the state’s new human rights commissioner, succeeding Scott McDougall, who criticised both sides of politics over a range of issues, particularly the state’s youth law and order crackdown.

   2025 December 11, Andrew Messenger, “New Queensland laws overturning ban on property developer donations will ‘legalise another avenue of corruption’, Greens say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 May 2026