Pre-fire

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range. intransitive

    "I could hear him just around the corner, so I just started pre-firing until he walked right into the cascade of bullets."

Example

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"I could hear him just around the corner, so I just started pre-firing until he walked right into the cascade of bullets."

Etymology

From pre- + fire (“to shoot”).

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