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lightning round
noun
A round of a game or contest that gives participants a fixed time in which to achieve as much as possible.
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Lightning round.
0915: Lightning round of 5-minute speeches.
1330: Lightning round of 6-minute speeches.
Sorry, just practising for the lightning round.
So let me play the lightning round to catch up.
Schrage did a lightning round of app-development research.
#YouTubeAsksObama: "Drake or Kendrick Lamar?" Watch @POTUS answer this question and more during a lightning round.
But Mrs. Bachmann quickly strode out from the wings, and a lightning round soon commenced.
In a lightning round on pop culture, the triplets followed clues to name famous duos.
So here goes, a lightning round for the Albert Lea High School Tigers.
It was like the lightning round of a game show for ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and the Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman.
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