firing off

1. 1.

   the act of discharging a gun

   Synonymsdischargefiring

   Broadershooting

   Narrowergun

Questions about firing off

What does firing off mean?

firing off means "the act of discharging a gun".

What is another word for firing off?

Close synonyms include discharge, firing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is firing off a common word?

firing off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.