Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(W.I.) used in several phr. to denote aggressive or decisive action; thus fire a blow/box/chop/cuff/hand/kick/lash, to hit hard; fire yourself/your skin, hurry up.

1948		H. Kirke gloss. in Twenty-five Years in British Guiana 350/1: Fire, strike : ‘He fire a kick at me’.
1953		R. White Our Virgin island 181: While struggling with him to the beach he get cross and seek my life he fire a lash at me i get a good cut under my chin.
1968		C. Graves Fourteen Islands in the Sun 84: A typical piece of police-court evidence is, ‘He fired a box at me so I mashed him down with a spanner’.
1976		Guyana Chronicle 5 June 7: Alloo fired a blow with the cutlass at Singh’s head.
1980		A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 21: When the King want to wee-wee or fire a shit, all the King got to do is...
1984		Grenada Documents 1: [He] is alleged to have fired a cuff at the guard.
1987		J.W. Lurry-Wright Custom and Conflict 127: I raised the stick and fired a blow at his arm. BB ducked and the stick caught him on the head.
1996		Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage 232/1: fire a blow/lash vb phr [...] To hit out at, to strike (sb) severely (with the hand or using any object) [...] Hence similarly fire a box/chop/cuff/hand/kick/lash/lick/some licks [...] fire yourself! [...] fire your skin! move yourself [i.e. Be off with you! take yourself out of my sight! Go away!].
2007		E. Buntin Anu Bantu 141: He fired a blow at Anu’s head. Anu blocked him, grabbed his hands, twisted them behind his back and threw him across the room.