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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Dunne fired off an uncharacteristic critical post on X about the state of the sport. —

Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025 The Project Rise investors fired off a legal letter in October 2024 claiming that Paramount’s special committee violated its fiduciary duty to shareholders by neglecting to consider the group’s previous $8.5 billion bid for the company. —

Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 Gaza’s civil defense called on people to refrain from the custom of firing off celebratory rounds of gunfire, because people living in tents were unprotected from stray bullets. —

Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025 In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. —

Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fire off