surefire

[shoor-fahyuhr, shur-]

sure·fire

[shoor-fahyuhr, shur-]
adjective
sure to work; foolproof: a surefire moneymaking scheme.

Origin:
1915–20; sure + fire
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Surefire is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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surefire definition


  1. mod.
    certain; effective; fail-safe. (Alludes to a gun that will always fire.) : I've got a surefire method for fixing cracks in drywall.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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