fire off

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to discharge a firearm so that it sends out a shot

   Phrasal verb · Separable

   fire off something / fire something off

   Usage: A shot, salute or firearm can be the object. Put pronouns before off: fire it off. The retained sense concerns actual gunfire.

   The historian described soldiers firing off muskets to celebrate the end of the siege.

   Sources and attribution

   OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook

   • The Missing Workbook: original construction review

   The historian described soldiers firing off muskets to celebrate the end of the siege.

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