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

Between driving, walking while listening to podcasts, and firing off every random question that pops into my head, these might actually stick around. — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

OpenAI’s inadvertent hack of Hugging Face saw its model fire off as many as 300 actions an hour, and a single agent can spawn sub-agents that make tool calls of their own. — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2026

On this track, the rapper puts his own success under a microscope, while still finding time to fire off a few lines about his frequent sparring partner Kendrick Lamar. — Klara Auerbach, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2026

Video captured in June showed Russian soldiers scrambling to respond to one attack by firing off man portable air defense systems (MANPADS) on a busy highway. — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 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