hair-trigger
Example Sentences
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Years of mismanagement and ill-fated transfers have left Spurs with a jumbled squad and a hair trigger for firing coaches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Investors appear to have been on hair trigger.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
In theory, the hair trigger gets shots off faster when playing shooters, and the rear paddles allow you to jump, crouch, reload, etc., without taking your thumb off the right stick for aiming.
From The Verge • May 25, 2022
As free agency approaches, the pre-snap hints and clues of the NFL’s greatest quarterback have the rest of the football world on a hair trigger.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2020
His sense of right and wrong had been mounted on a hair trigger.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
