Usually means: Practice evacuation for emergency safety.
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  1. fire drill: Merriam-Webster
  2. fire drill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fire drill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fire drill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fire drill: Vocabulary.com
  6. fire-drill, fire drill: Wordnik
  7. fire drill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fire drill: Wiktionary
  9. fire drill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fire drill: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fire drill, fire drill: Dictionary.com
  12. Fire drill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. fire drill: Rhymezone
  14. fire drill: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fire drill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fire drill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. fire drill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Fire Drill: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fire_drilling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fire drill)

noun:  An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
noun:  (idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
noun:  A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.

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