- the part of a gun that you press in order to fire it
- to pull/squeeze the trigger
- He kept his finger on the trigger.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + trigger- press
- pull
- squeeze
- …
- finger
- guard
- mechanism
- …
- have your finger on the trigger
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- something that is the cause of a particular reaction or development, especially a bad one
- trigger for something The trigger for the strike was the closure of yet another factory.
- When dealing with panic attacks it's important to understand your triggers.
- trigger to something Intense sunlight may be a trigger to skin cancer.
- trigger to do something a radical plan that would have served as a trigger to create chaos in the country
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from dialect tricker, from Dutch trekker, from trekken ‘to pull’.
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