Definitions | trigger-happy |
| adjective
- (idiom) Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target.
- The bystanders were indiscriminately gunned down by gang members.
- (idiom) Inclined to behave recklessly, especially with machinery.
- Be careful when you work near him; he's with that chain-saw.
- (idiom) Inclined to react excessively or violently at the slightest provocation.
- He was so that he wheeled and punched me when I brushed by him in the hall.
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