Definitions for quick-fire

quick-fire quick-fire

Spelling: [kwik-fahyuh r or
IPA: /ˈkwɪkˈfaɪər or ˈkwɪkˈfaɪər ɪŋ/

Quick-Fire is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in quick-fire (-cefiikqru).

Definitions for quick-fire

noun

  1. a single shot or several shots fired at a rapid rate from small arms at a target, especially one presented unexpectedly.

adjective

  1. firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.

Origin of quick-fire

First recorded in 1890-95

Examples for quick-fire

But he was secretly elated at the quick-fire success of his joke.

The infantry is armed with the Mauser rifle, the artillery with a shielded Krupp quick-fire piece of 7.5-centimeter caliber.

The field and horse batteries are armed with the Krupp quick-fire gun of the model of 1903.

Order followed order like the rattle of quick-fire, and was obeyed with something more than the Wolverine's customary smartness.

Hitchens, by contrast, wrote journalism and quick-fire columns and was not averse to using cliché or ready-made formulation.

The windows filled, the streets ahead of us became choked, as the word that the President was coming ran on like quick-fire.

Far away on the deck of the Chihuahua the quick-fire racket of Jones's auxiliary was amazingly audible.

Boil them with a quick-fire, till by trying a little upon a Plate, you find it gellieth.

Word Value for quick-fire
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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