go off halfcocked

See also: go off half-cocked

English

Verb

go off halfcocked

1. (of a firearm) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock.
2. (slang) To do or say something without due thought or care.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “go off halfcocked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)