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

Stories of young job seekers firing off hundreds of applications without landing an offer have become all too common. — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Broadly, though, the firms seem to have watched for accounts prompting their models in suspicious ways, whether by firing off lots of prompts in a short time or by asking telltale kinds of questions. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

The Bass campaign, citing the fact that Raman appeared on Piker’s stream the same day, fired off an email to reporters claiming the councilmember had lied about her reasons for missing the Jewish heritage event. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

The fracas has only elevated the film’s profile, with every tweet that Musk has fired off igniting a new wave of coverage. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 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