Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition in which something does not work properly.
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- noun US, informal The state of being
defective . - noun Australia A type of processed meat
sausage ;devon - verb intransitive To
go wrong or becomedefective .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Boing Boing: October 17, 2004 - October 23, 2004 Archives 2004
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But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
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But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
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Edwards was back in his meteorological office, wearing his field jacket, flak jacket, and "fritz" style helmet.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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It later dawned on me that "fritz" is an ethnic slur against Germans.
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And it had to go wrong at the worst possible moment, the mics going on the fritz during the big romantic finale of all places, in "Love Lost and Found."
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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In addition to the dicey plumbing, the power was frequently on the fritz.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Anybody remember back in '92 or so when it was our own Reed College nuclear reactor on the fritz?
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As the building comes closer, the nerves fritz louder, until we are through the big chain-link gates, and walking across the frost-heaved potholed asphalt playground.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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"I loved the concept so much I bought another one when the first one went on the fritz," says an Amazon.com review of the Nine Stars DZT-50-9 13.2 gallon sensor can written by Mark Elridge, a 38-year-old computer programmer from Toronto.
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