Definition of "fire-breathing" []

• That emits flame from the mouth or nostrils (adjective)
• Caustic, vitriolic or scathing (adjective)

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• "Last fall I was shooting my .45/70 Guide gun offhand, using Garrett Cartridges 'fire-breathing cast-lead loads, and all my shots hit in a nice tight group about a foot to the right of where I was aiming."
• "He fell into a deep cave and landed between two fire-breathing dragons."
• "Of what potency the fearful rites and masked mysteries of shamanism, when daily that living wonder, the steamboat, coughed and spluttered up and down the Yukon in defiance of all law, a veritable fire-breathing monster?"