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

Recent Examples on the Web

For home wins, the club introduced a water cannon players fire off postgame that, if nothing else, calls back to the Rapids’ namesake. —Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026

So one of the investigators, Drew Sullins, fired off a note to the governor’s communications director, David Turner. —Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026

Physically frail, yet in full verbal command, Julian doesn’t talk to Lori so much as at her, pausing only to fire off questions that harden, in midair, into assumptions. —Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026

Nine days before Cinema United looks Paramount executives eye to eye at their Las Vegas confab, CinemaCon, the movie theater lobbyist org’s boss Michael O’Leary has fired off some letters this week. —Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fire off

• cerenkov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff