Definition of "fritz"

fritz

/fɹɪts/

noun
uncountable
1. (Northern US, informal) The state of being defective.
2. (South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon
  Quotations
  Generally, cooked deli products include Devon, Strasbourg sausage, Polish sausage, fritz, cabanossi or cabana, mortadella, and well-cooked roast beef (brown/grey in colour).
  2000, Peter Cerexhe, John Ashton, Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning, page 52
verb
third-person singular simple present fritzes, present participle fritzing, simple past and past participle fritzed
1. (intransitive) To go wrong or become defective.
  Quotations
  One clip, of Talking Heads playing “Born Under Punches” in Rome in 1980, is shot largely at groin level, amid sound equipment that is being manipulated for feedback squeals and other effects; it’s like being close to the crooked spine and fritzed nervous system of a body that’s simultaneously pushing its sex appeal.
  2008 May 18, Virginia Heffernan, “Pixels at an Exhibition”, in New York Times‎
  My brain was fritzing like an elderly TV set about to die. I hit the side of my head with the heel of my hand. Percussive maintenance. It didn't work.
  2009, Jaqueline Girdner, Murder, My Deer, page 15