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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Reese fired off a post on X about an hour after Kruk’s comments went viral.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
The publicly available logs from the Department of Airports confirm that a single person fired off almost all of these complaints.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
Trump’s letter to Lula This week, Trump began a new strategy: firing off individual letters to world leaders that set new tariff rates on their countries’ U.S. imports, starting Aug. 1.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 11 July 2025
The crook fired off a shot at the door of the post office before fleeing on a black moped heading north on Coney Island Ave.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
The publicly available logs from the Department of Airports confirm that a single person fired off almost all of these complaints.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
Trump’s letter to Lula This week, Trump began a new strategy: firing off individual letters to world leaders that set new tariff rates on their countries’ U.S. imports, starting Aug. 1.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 11 July 2025
The crook fired off a shot at the door of the post office before fleeing on a black moped heading north on Coney Island Ave.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
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“Fire off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20off. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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