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quick fire
1noun
- a single shot or several shots fired at a rapid rate from small arms at a target, especially one presented unexpectedly.
quick-fire
2[ kwik-fahyuhr ]
adjective
- firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
quick fire
noun
- rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
adjective
- Alsoquick-firing capable of or designed for quick fire
- informal.rapid or following one another in rapid succession
quick-fire questions
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Example Sentences
Hitchens, by contrast, wrote journalism and quick-fire columns and was not averse to using cliché or ready-made formulation.
One of them hauled a hollow maple log out of the dbris and threw it to one side as being too heavy for a quick fire.
One sprang to chop a dry spruce log into fuel for a quick fire, and fell a harder tree to keep us warm through the night.
A quick fire of interrogation volleyed at the three recruits, especially at Max.
A quick fire, built inside, heats it thoroughly, after which water is thrown upon the hot stones to produce steam.
They are then wrapped up in buttered paper and broiled on a quick fire.
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