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hang fires

hang fires is the plural of hang fire.

Meaning of hang fire

Noun

hang fire (plural hang fires)

  1. The situation when a gun does not immediately fire when the trigger is pulled, but may fire shortly after.

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Questions about hang fires

What is hang fires the plural of?
Hang fires is the plural of hang fire.

Words near hang fires in the dictionary

  1. hang by a thread
  2. hang by the eyelids
  3. hang dog
  4. hang dogs
  5. hang fire
  6. hang fires
  7. hang five
  8. hang fives
  9. hang glide
  10. hang glider
  11. hang gliders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hang fires (page history and authors); hang fire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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