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Meanings of firing off in English

Catalan
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The act of discharging a gun.

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Usage of firing off in English
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Christ, it could be Skullhammer, firing off accusations as a double bluff.
Bedlam
2
What's all that firing off there to the left and farther on?
The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide
3
To cope, I put on my reporter hat and started firing off questions.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
4
It showed no fear as he edged towards it, firing off several photographs.
BBC
5
Around a death-bed the wits were firing off their sarcasms on its occupant.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
6
He could only accept it by firing off both barrels of his gun.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
7
Her nerves were firing off so many impulses, she couldn't tell.
Audrey's door
8
People with inoperative communications equipment don't go around firing off pulse-rifles.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
9
My chief tester loved this and spent ages firing off bolts.
Wired
10
Still the Cossacks went on firing off their matchlocks without a moment's intermission.
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
11
Georgina, meanwhile, had been firing off telegrams like a three-decker warship firing broadsides.
Drood: a novel
12
Don't let us be firing off our guns in a hurry, you know.
Middlemarch
13
The Brit yanked the Derringer's trigger, firing off a wild shot.
Storm Front
14
To-night our pickets were sure they heard firing off in the direction of Kanawha.
The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
15
Some soldiers were firing off guns and throwing bombs into the river all night.
The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro a...
16
Then, when the attacks started firing off, Martin was in the thick of them.
The Irish Times
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