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shoot off

verb

  1. loose wildly
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To leave quickly.

    I have to shoot off: my interview starts in under an hour.

  2. To do (something, usually a written or verbal communication) quickly, and without hesitation or forethought.

    In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point.

  3. To overshoot the bounds of a set when filming, showing part of what lies outside it.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, off.

    His arm got shot off in the war.

    "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.