"sound off" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sounds off",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sounding off",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "sounded off",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "noises off"
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        {
          "text": "I'm sick of his sounding off about how he thinks this country should be run!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting Albert O'Neil, “Board Hears Testimony on Saints' Liquor License”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 10:",
          "text": "I would give anything to be at the hearing so that I could really sound off about this attempt to cram another liquor license into Jamaica Plain. I say kill it today.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
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          "ref": "1987, Stanley Kubrick, director, Full Metal Jacket:",
          "text": "Hartman: […] Do you maggots understand that?\nRecruits: Sir, yes, sir!\nHartman: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.\nRecruits: SIR, YES, SIR!",
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        "Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something."
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          "speak up",
          "speak up#English"
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        "(military) Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something."
      ],
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        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Astonishing X-Men, number 5, Marvel Comics:",
          "text": "Cyclops: […] X-men… Sound off …\nMan 1: Iceman, sounding off!Man 2: Fireman, sounding off!\nMan 3: Clothing-Man, sounding off!\nMan 4: Ability-to-Hop-Man, here!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 August 19, Schlock Mercenary:",
          "text": "Tagon: Sound off! Brad, do you have the Ambassador?\nBrad: Check!\nTagon: Schlock, do you have our money?\nSchlock: Check!\nTagon: Are we still being pursued?\nCreeth Soldiers: Check!",
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        "(military) Command instructing a person to confirm that they are present or that some other objective has been met."
      ],
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        "politics",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
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        {
          "text": "I'm sick of his sounding off about how he thinks this country should be run!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting Albert O'Neil, “Board Hears Testimony on Saints' Liquor License”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 10:",
          "text": "I would give anything to be at the hearing so that I could really sound off about this attempt to cram another liquor license into Jamaica Plain. I say kill it today.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner."
      ],
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        [
          "hold forth",
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          "opinionated",
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        "(transitive, informal) To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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          "ref": "1987, Stanley Kubrick, director, Full Metal Jacket:",
          "text": "Hartman: […] Do you maggots understand that?\nRecruits: Sir, yes, sir!\nHartman: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.\nRecruits: SIR, YES, SIR!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something."
      ],
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          "military",
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        [
          "speak up",
          "speak up#English"
        ]
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        "(military) Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
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        "en:Military"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Astonishing X-Men, number 5, Marvel Comics:",
          "text": "Cyclops: […] X-men… Sound off …\nMan 1: Iceman, sounding off!Man 2: Fireman, sounding off!\nMan 3: Clothing-Man, sounding off!\nMan 4: Ability-to-Hop-Man, here!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 August 19, Schlock Mercenary:",
          "text": "Tagon: Sound off! Brad, do you have the Ambassador?\nBrad: Check!\nTagon: Schlock, do you have our money?\nSchlock: Check!\nTagon: Are we still being pursued?\nCreeth Soldiers: Check!",
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        "(military) Command instructing a person to confirm that they are present or that some other objective has been met."
      ],
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        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
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