line of fire

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   the path of a missile discharged from a firearm

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Questions about line of fire

What does line of fire mean?

line of fire means "the path of a missile discharged from a firearm".

Is line of fire a common word?

line of fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.