Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designed to fire shots in rapid succession.
- adjective Marked by continuous rapid occurrence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Constructed so as to discharge projectiles with rapidity; quick-firing; quick-fire.
- Figuratively, marked by rapid movement of question and answer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gun.) Firing shots in rapid succession.
- adjective (Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single-barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr.
R. F. )
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a gun Able to
fire bullets in quick succession. - adjective of a series of questions Delivered in a
rapid continuous stream.
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Examples
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It’s where I take calls rapid-fire, one after the other, and people can ask me about any stock the lawyers at CNBC say it’s OK to mention on air.
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It’s where I take calls rapid-fire, one after the other, and people can ask me about any stock the lawyers at CNBC say it’s OK to mention on air.
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It’s where I take calls rapid-fire, one after the other, and people can ask me about any stock the lawyers at CNBC say it’s OK to mention on air.
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It’s where I take calls rapid-fire, one after the other, and people can ask me about any stock the lawyers at CNBC say it’s OK to mention on air.
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
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Everything from the fight he has with his rapid-fire round to the way he browbeats his underling, Tim, is all planned to make him sound just a little more petty, a little more realistic, and a little more human.
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Everything from the fight he has with his rapid-fire round to the way he browbeats his underling, Tim, is all planned to make him sound just a little more petty, a little more realistic, and a little more human.
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Television is just too rapid-fire to understand well.
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