Definitions for rapid-fire

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rapid-fire rap·id-fire

Spelling: [rap-id-fahyuh r]

IPA: /ˈræp ɪdˈfaɪər/

Rapid-Fire is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in rapid-fire (-adefiiprr).

Definitions for rapid-fire

noun

1. a rate of firing small arms that is intermediate between slow fire and quick fire.

adjective

1. characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession:
2. Military. discharging in rapid fire:
3. discharging, operating, etc., at a rate more rapid than normal:

Origin of rapid-fire

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for rapid-fire

He turned to the others, and in rapid-fire English, explained his plans.

We are going to leave on Sunday and our plans are perfected in rapid-fire order.

That seems like quite a long lapse in this day and age of rapid-fire foreign remakes (see: Let Me In).

The girl listened to the rapid-fire pulsations of the boat ahead.

Mixed in with his rapid-fire prophecies are plenty of provocative assessments of the present.

He shot his fingers in the air and began a rapid-fire conversation.

The show offers no cathartic “gotcha” moments, no easy answers, and no rapid-fire dialogue.

Here, he riffs on his rapid-fire style, why politics is as funny as ever, and more.

The superiority of the Spaniards in rapid-fire guns was very great.

There are no cathartic ‘gotcha’ moments, no easy answers, and no rapid-fire dialogue.