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English
Etymology
From auto- + fire.
Pronunciation
Noun
autofire (uncountable)
- (video games) A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- 1988, Operation Wolf (review), Crash issue 59 (December 1988)
- 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.
1989 October, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 10:High-speed autofire and a choice of two joystick sizes are featured.
1990 March, Letters: Your Sinclair, number 51: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.
- (science fiction) A feature that allows a weapon to fire automatically.
Verb
autofire (third-person singular simple present autofires, present participle autofiring, simple past and past participle autofired)
- (video games, weaponry) To fire automatically.
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Swedish
Noun
autofire
- (video games) autofire
Mina fingrar ömmar. Räck mig autofire-dosan.- My fingers are sore. Hand me the autofire controller.
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