fire off

verb

fired off; firing off; fires off

transitive verb

: to write and send usually in haste or anger
fired off a memo

Examples of fire off in a Sentence

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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 

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fire off was in 1888

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“Fire off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20off. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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