Quickfire — often written quick-fire — describes things done very fast, one after another, with almost no gap. A quiz host fires quickfire questions; a speaker makes quickfire jokes; a meeting can turn into a quickfire round of updates. The picture behind it is a gun that shoots again and again without pausing to reload, so the word still carries a little snap and pressure. It is informal, lively British-flavoured English, at home in games, TV, and talk, not in a careful legal letter. Though actually, nothing is on fire: nobody is talking about flames. It is about pace and a series, not about one single fast act. One quick answer is just quick; a string of them, bang bang bang, is quickfire.

連珠砲式的；一個接一個很快的