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autofire

noun

Etymology

From auto- + fire.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥✻
  2. inherited from *fōr✻ — “fire”
  3. inherited from *fuir✻
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire”
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. prefixed as autofire — “auto + fire”

Definitions

  1. A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player…

    A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.

    • You start off with just seven clips of ammo and five grenades — so all you autofire merchants are in trouble. Only real soldiers, with an accurate eye and careful trigger finger need apply here.
    • High-speed autofire and a choice of two joystick sizes are featured.
    • Also the crappy joystick, the SJS1, is useless. It's as stiff as a Skoda's steering and there's no autofire on it. I can't help thinking that I made the worst investment of my life by buying this computer.

  2. A feature that allows a weapon to fire automatically.

  3. To fire automatically.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autofire. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA