- 1the part of a gun that you press in order to fire it to pull/squeeze the trigger He kept his finger on the trigger.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- 2trigger (for something) trigger (to something/to do something) something that is the cause of a particular reaction or development, especially a bad one The trigger for the strike was the closure of yet another factory. Intense sunlight may be a trigger for skin cancer.
- 3the part of a bomb that causes it to explode nuclear triggers
Check pronunciation: trigger