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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



... enough for your pumping—and going down a thousand feet, it would run your engine for a year. Now, then, at the end of the year you could not expect to haul that weight up again. You would have a trigger arrangement which would detach it from the rope when it got to the bottom. Then you would wind up your rope,—a man could do that in a short time,—and you would attach another cylinder of lead, and that would run your engine for another year, minus a few days, because it would only go down nine ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... middle of the beach. He was pacing restlessly up and down with a tommy-gun in his hands. Dalgetty raised the pistol with slow hard-held concentration, wishing it were a rifle. Remember your target practice now, arm loose, fingers extended, don't pull the trigger but squeeze—because you've got to be ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson
... sun for full half of the year, Made each glacier a blizzard blown trap, They strung out volcanoes half way to Japan Each one with a hair trigger cap. They planned for the coast line a system of storms Each equipped with a ninety mile breath And then spread o'er it all the fog that men call The North Coast ...
— Rhymes of a Roughneck • Pat O'Cotter
... term in the penitentiary, and still more probable death by lynching at the hands of a cowardly mob. He very bravely determined to protect his life as long as he had breath in his body and strength to draw a hair trigger on his would-be murderers. How well he was justified in that belief is well shown by the newspaper accounts which were given of this transaction. Without a single line of evidence to justify the assertion, the New Orleans daily papers at once declared that both ...
— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
... be hanged to you!" I yelled back in reply. Then in my exasperation I whipped a pistol out of my belt, and levelling it at him, pulled the trigger. But he did not mean to be shot if he could help it,—preferring, I suppose, to take the risk of being hanged later on,—and the moment that he saw what I would be at he sprang off his perch so hurriedly that he fell headlong to the deck, while our lads sent up a howl ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood


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