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Thankfully, Cami’s got a few friends aiding her on her healing journey, including Tommy’s spitfire wife Angela (Ali Larter).
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025
Arriving a little over a month ahead of the LP, the song finds the hitmaker blending flashy ’80s pop aesthetics with her signature spitfire bars on a recording that bodes well for the rest of what’s to come for her post-Scarlet era.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
On his way out of the country club, Devon runs into Anita and Vernon's daughter Dani (Karla Mosley), the spitfire powerhouse of the Dupree family.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Lily, the mean girl, lands in the body of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Tess, who is Harper’s grandma (but practically her second parent), while Tess is taken over by the abrasive Brit-snob spitfire Lily.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025
Arriving a little over a month ahead of the LP, the song finds the hitmaker blending flashy ’80s pop aesthetics with her signature spitfire bars on a recording that bodes well for the rest of what’s to come for her post-Scarlet era.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
On his way out of the country club, Devon runs into Anita and Vernon's daughter Dani (Karla Mosley), the spitfire powerhouse of the Dupree family.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Lily, the mean girl, lands in the body of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Tess, who is Harper’s grandma (but practically her second parent), while Tess is taken over by the abrasive Brit-snob spitfire Lily.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Spitfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spitfire. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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spitfire
noun
spit·fire
ˈspit-ˌfī(ə)r 
: an easily angered or highly emotional person
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