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

Bruce, in jeans, a T-shirt, and a leather jacket, shouldered his guitar and launched into a jam built around a simple twelve-bar blues, firing off some solos, making room for Clemons to honk along. —Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025

Back in 2011, during the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, tennis player David Ferrer fired off a forehand ball in the direction of a crying child in the stands. —Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025

Crawshaw averaged 37 yards on his three punts and fired off a less-than-inspiring 25-yard boot from San Francisco’s 45-yard line. —Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025

Moderate geomagnetic storms could occur after the sun fired off three coronal mass ejections on Aug. 5, USA TODAY reported. —Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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