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Definition of Loose off
1. Verb. Fire as from a gun. "The soldiers let drive their bullets"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loose Off
Literary usage of Loose off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"vn (aux. fein) to come or get loose, off or away; to be spared (»СП, from); ...
ü. a. to cut loose, off о U. free; ..."
2. A German Reader for Beginners: With an Introduction on English-German by Hermann Carl Otto Huss (1900)
"... bie, Loreley, a water- nymph. loe, adj., loose, off ; — feitt (with tfcc.), be
rid of; adi'. and sep. ..."
3. Tommy Cornstalk: Being Some Account of the Less Notable Features of the by John Henry Macartney Abbott (1902)
"It is not enough for him to ' loose off' his rifle, in the vague hope of his
bullet chancing to drop where some one is; he must have a definite target to ..."
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