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Trigger   /trˈɪgər/   Listen
Trigger

noun
1.
Lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun.  Synonym: gun trigger.
2.
A device that activates or releases or causes something to happen.
3.
An act that sets in motion some course of events.  Synonyms: induction, initiation.
verb
1.
Put in motion or move to act.  Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger off, trip.  "Actuate the circuits"
2.
Release or pull the trigger on.


Trig

adjective
1.
Neat and smart in appearance.  Synonyms: clean-cut, trim.  "The trig corporal in his jaunty cap" , "A trim beard"



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"Trigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... there later, unconscious, badly wounded, his hand still on the trigger of the gun he had worked with such success. He was carried back to the rest billet and thence to a hospital. Everywhere the story of the boy's heroism ...
— The Children of France • Ruth Royce
... Neither would determine, nor would preponderance of weapons determine. It was not yet perceived that such clan-people were not Tribe-People, and thus could not know the meaning of Council, nor weigh consequence, nor realize in their new-found cleverness that a single arrogant act would trigger ...
— The Beginning • Henry Hasse
... our front pretty thoroughly with mines, consisting of large shells buried with caps that would explode at the touch of a foot on a trigger, and we awaited the approach of the Federal force that had been ...
— A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. • George Little
... those lines of thought Sir George was not, perhaps, conscious in his peril, yet, fetching back, he could trace them as they had worked. Seeking a solution by measures not violent, he had been given sore spears, whereon his finger tightened at the trigger, and he was a wound automaton; fixed, stern, a fate on feet, bearing down upon the chief in the shelter of ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne
... you knew where there was a gun, would that make you want to put it up agin your head and pull the trigger?" ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand


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