blitz baby en · NOUN
Etymology
Blitz + baby.
Meanings
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A person born in the United Kingdom during the heavy German bombing raids (the Blitz) of World War II.
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: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 112:
Forms
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| blitz babies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |