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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



... pace towards the left hand, and then stepped towards O'Connell. His object was to induce him to fire, more or less, at random. He lifted his pistol, as if about to fire. O'Connell instantly presented, pulled the trigger, and the unfortunate ...
— Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell • Anonymous
... have brought about such a catastrophe. All Europe appeared to be sitting, unknowingly or knowingly, upon a powder barrel which only needed some inconsequent hand to apply the match. It seems incredible that the mere pulling of a trigger by a Servian student and the slaughter of an archduke in the Bosnian capital could in a month's time have plunged all Europe into war. From small causes great events may rise. Certainly that with which we are here dealing strikingly illustrates ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall
... had me trapped, with all the deck to dodge about. Just forward of the main-mast I stopped, drew a pistol from my pocket, took a cool aim, though he had already turned and was once more coming directly after me, and drew the trigger. The hammer fell, but there followed neither flash nor sound; the priming was useless with sea-water. I cursed myself for my neglect. Why had not I, long before, reprimed and reloaded my only weapons? Then I should not have been as now, a mere ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... upon his lips; but they were never spoken. Werper construed his superior's action into an attempt to close with him. His revolver was on a level with the captain's heart, and the latter had taken but a step when Werper pulled the trigger. Without a moan the man sank to the rough planking of the veranda, and as he fell the mists that had clouded Werper's brain lifted, so that he saw himself and the deed that he had done in the same light that those who must judge him ...
— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... hunted any game better worth my powder; and to a young man with rare holidays and long working hours, its value was enhanced by the fact that one might bring it down at any turn, if only one kept one's eye alert and one's hand on the trigger. ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton


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