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quickfire

quickfire is the alternative form of quick-fire.

Meaning of quick-fire

Adjective

quick-fire (comparative more quick-fire, superlative most quick-fire)

  1. (idiomatic) Having one thing coming rapidly after another.
    • The politician was unnerved by the journalist's quick-fire questioning.

Noun

quickfire (uncountable)

  1. Fire that spreads quickly through dry vegetation.
    • If his revelation had started as a slow burn, his fame now exploded and spread like quickfire.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 363

Forms of quickfire

comparativemore quickfire
superlativemost quickfire

Questions about quickfire

What does quickfire mean?
Quickfire means fire that spreads quickly through dry vegetation.
What is quickfire the alternative form of?
Quickfire is the alternative form of quick-fire.
What part of speech is quickfire?
Quickfire is a noun.

Words near quickfire in the dictionary

  1. quickest on the draw
  2. quickest sighted
  3. quickest-and-dirtiest
  4. quickest-sighted
  5. quickety split
  6. quickfire
  7. quickfrozen
  8. quickhanded
  9. quickhatch
  10. quickhatches
  11. quickie

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