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loose off en · VERB
Meanings
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(ambitransitive, informal) to fire (a weapon, or ammunition); to shoot (using a firearm)
They loosed off a couple of rounds at the enemy.
More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.
2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:
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(archaic, transitive) to unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.)
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