quickfire

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1. alternativeAlternative form of quick-fire.

   Brawn believes his driver’s past setbacks may be a firmer preparation for a championship bid than, say, the quickfire success earned by Hamilton, who has turned sullen in his public appearances and blamed his troubles on his McLaren-Mercedes team giving him a “bad car.”

   2009 May 23, John F. Burns, “A Rebirth in Britain as a Driver Revives a Career and a Team”, in New York Times

1. uncountableFire 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