Trigger-happy
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"Like you're Billy the Kid ... Why are you so trigger-happy?"--"Bucky Skank" (1973) by Lee Scratch Perry |
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- Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target.
- The bystanders were indiscriminately gunned down by trigger-happy gang members.
- Inclined to behave recklessly, especially with machinery.
- Be careful when you work near him; he's trigger-happy with that chain-saw.
- Inclined to react excessively or violently at the slightest provocation.
- He was so trigger-happy that he wheeled and punched me when I brushed by him in the hall.
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