fire away

verb

fired away; firing away; fires away

intransitive verb

: to speak without hesitation

—usually used as an imperative

Examples of fire away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Finally Rybakina, who’d been firing away from the baseline, came to the net, on the offensive. —Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025

On a more mundane level, people in many places were hiding fire away in closed stoves, steam engines, and furnaces. —Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Mar. 2025

So the Dragons were quick to every pass, jumped over the top of every screen and, most of the game, would not allow the Grizzlies to fire away from the arc. —Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025

By the third quarter, Nikola Jokic — who simply cannot expend the consistent energy needed to defend Edwards at the level of the screen — started to drift back further and further into the paint on pick and rolls, which allowed Edwards to fire away freely. —Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1756, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fire away

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