squeezing off

verb

present participle of squeeze off
as in firing
to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force the hunter waited for the deer to start feeding, then squeezed off several rounds

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Recent Examples of squeezing off Creating the park would mean squeezing off one or two lanes of traffic in each direction of San Vicente. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeezing off
  1. firing
  2. shooting
Verb
  • Four Grucci employees, led by a young crew chief named Alyson, were ending their workday by test-firing one last hand grenade and one last groundburst simulator.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Moments later, an armed bystander stepped in and began firing at the suspect, according to Koehn.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of firing
Verb
  • Police say the three teens had met up at a vacant industrial property in DeLand’s downtown that day for unknown reasons, and the meeting ended with Rundell fatally shooting the other two.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Johnson appeared to turn the gun on the woman’s boyfriend, shooting him in the left shoulder.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of shooting

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“Squeezing off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeezing%20off. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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