Definition of "rapid-fire" []

• Designed to fire shots in rapid succession: a rapid-fire machine gun. (adjective)
• Marked by continuous rapid occurrence: rapid-fire questions. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "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.”"
• "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."