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.
Jim Cramer's Mad Money James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason 2006
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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.
Jim Cramer's Mad Money James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason 2006
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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.
Jim Cramer's Mad Money James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason 2006
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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.
Jim Cramer's Mad Money James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason 2006
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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.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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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.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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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.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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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.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Television is just too rapid-fire to understand well.
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