fire off

verb

fired off; firing off; fires off

: to write and send usually in haste or anger

fired off a memo

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At an event in the swing state of Nevada, Trump fired off another broad goal for his former rival candidate, saying the 70-year-old may have even wider reach than just vaccines, including medical issues pertaining to women. —

Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024 The air became thick with white smoke as people burned out their tires while stuck in traffic or fired off bottle rockets from the back of trucks. —

Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 Your instinct might be to fire off a passive-aggressive, office-wide Slack. —

Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter to find out if one of its moons hosts a habitable sub-surface ocean. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fire off