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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trigger-happy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ trigger-happy soldiers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A debate even begins about whether the army is not getting a little trigger-happy in its nervous and no doubt terrified tension.
▪ After all, half-an-hour away in any direction there is a trigger-happy racist waiting for his big day.
▪ It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
▪ The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
▪ Whooper swans are molested by irresponsible trigger-happy parties but here, at Bolam, they visit in peace.
Wiktionary
trigger-happy

a. 1 (context idiomatic English) Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target. 2 (context idiomatic English) Inclined to behave recklessly, especially with machinery. 3 (context idiomatic English) Inclined to react excessively or violently at the slightest provocation. alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target. 2 (context idiomatic English) Inclined to behave recklessly, especially with machinery. 3 (context idiomatic English) Inclined to react excessively or violently at the slightest provocation.

WordNet
trigger-happy

  1. adj. irresponsible in the use of firearms

  2. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent]

Usage examples of "trigger-happy".

Tomorrow, Snuffy thought, or the next day, or whenevef the chotas and the trigger-happy posse got out of there, he would head into the hills for a spell with his sleeping bag, a lid of Mary Jane, some fishline, and a dozen artificial flies.

I might be sneaking up behind one of the many groups of trigger-happy gearheads I had the courtesy to call last night.

Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.

Okay, so I live behind a six-foot-high wall in an adobe mansion surrounded by spruce trees, and I got more land than twenty of those poor bastards put together, but I been dealing with them for years, I been selling and buying their land, and right now I'm tied heavily into Ladd Devine's Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.

There were dirty messes, a kind of warfare, and even now some trigger-happy skycop might just take a shot at an adman who flaunted his pitch the way Ric's skybuddy had.

I'd just as soon stay in your good graces, Boba Fettor at least as far as that is possible for any creature to doplus I'd regret acquiring a reputation for being, as you might say, trigger-happy.

Say if Joe took a potshot at one of his own trigger-happy compatriots and they blew him ass-backward down the canyon into eternity, scream as the liberals and the Charley Blooms might, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Furious now at her own forgetfulness, she headed for it, turned back to blank out the windows-that sniper was too damned trigger-happy for comfort and might well fire on the reflection from the screen even if she turned it away from the window-and traced the cord along the floor until she found the leech.

Oh, right, and she was supposed to keep a trigger-happy rabbi who wanted to go out in a blaze of glory chilled out.

The governor of Texas, now in his second term and a trigger-happy Republican, by the way, doesn't give a damn who he pisses off.

Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy.