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Definition of fritz
: a state of disorder or disrepair —used in the phrase on the fritz
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Nearly every Jaguar Land Rover product that passes through our parking lot suffers from similar touchscreen maladies and curious fritz-prone electronics.
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Trump's campaign was on the fritz when Bannon and Conway joined up during the summer of 2016.
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The U.S. radars that had gone on the fritz were part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, which was dedicated to scanning the skies for incoming Soviet missiles.
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The last server crash cost them 10,000 subscribers when the e-mail database went on the fritz.
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