Fire and Pop

Fire

Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

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Pop and fire are semantically related. (North American) In some cases you can use "Pop" instead a verb "Fire". informal substitute

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Pop verb - To break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure.

Usage example: a balloon popped suddenly and startled us all

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Fire and pop are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a verb "Pop".

Nearby Words: popped, popping, poping, poped

pure	pure fire	pure pop
typical	typical fire	typical pop
original	original fire	original pop
true	true fire	true pop
Other adjectives: light, heavy, real, massive, big, huge, little, dark, major, hot, random.

people	fire people	pop people
someone	fire someone	pop someone
number	fire number	pop number
time	fire time	pop time
Other words: shot, rifle, times, rounds.

Hollywood Tactics: While the outlaws hide in cover like a sane gun fighter would do, the simplistic game-play has the player unable to also utilize cover and perform tactics such as blind-fire or pop-up-aim-fire, then take cover again.

Source: Video Game / Mad Dog McCree
At level 3, it fires a cloud of bubbles as long as you hold down the fire button, which start popping rapidly and firing lightning bolts once you've built up enough... and once you release the fire button, they all pop and fire their lightning bolts at once.

Source: Magikarp Power
Spread Shot: Aobozu wizards at some scenes fire a triple spread shot horizontally, while Tengu, the winged red demons at Scenes 7 & 8 fire three lightnings downwards when they pop up.

Source: Video Game / Ninja Senki

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