Definitions for hair-trigger

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IPA: /ˈhɛərˌtrɪg ər/

Hair-Trigger is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in hair-trigger (-aegghiirrrt).

Definitions for hair-trigger

noun

  1. a trigger that allows the firing mechanism of a firearm to be operated by very slight pressure.

adjective

  1. easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause:

Origin of hair-trigger

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for hair-trigger

Revel's reflexes were still, if not hair-trigger, at least very quick.

It merely exploded him into action like a finger on a hair-trigger.

Them fellers air allus on a hair-trigger when a mortgage falls in.

I then got a new dog and chained him, and a duelling pistol, with a hair-trigger.

On gun control, a hair-trigger issue for Republicans who pick the nominee, Christie is in the center or even center–left field.

Only the weight of the forefinger was needed to spring the hair-trigger.

As he was not a thoroughbred, his nerves were not of the hair-trigger order.

Every nerve was at tension, each muscle set at hair-trigger.

They would be making themselves a prime, hair-trigger target for Americans and Israelis unwilling to take chances in a crisis.

It is self-love inflamed to the acute point; conceit, with a hair-trigger.

Word Value for hair-trigger
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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