Usually means: Guaranteed to succeed or work.
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  1. sure-fire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sure-fire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sure-fire, sure-fire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sure-fire: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sure-Fire, Sure-fire, sure-fire: Wordnik
  6. sure-fire: Wiktionary
  7. sure-fire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. sure-fire: Dictionary.com
  9. sure-fire: Rhymezone
  10. sure-fire: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sure-fire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. sure-fire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Guaranteed to work or happen.

Similar:
surefire, certain, no-fail, infallible, guaranteed, assured, secure, probable, foolproof, likely, more...

Opposite:
hit-or-miss, chance, random, unpredictable

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Similar:
surefire, certain, no-fail, infallible, guaranteed, assured, secure, probable, foolproof, likely, more...

Opposite:
hit-or-miss, chance, random, unpredictable



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