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itchy trigger fingers

itchy trigger fingers is the plural of itchy trigger finger.

Meaning of itchy trigger finger

Noun

itchy trigger finger (plural itchy trigger fingers)

  1. The trigger finger of a person eager to fire their weapon or likely to do so unexpectedly.
    • As jittery as everyone was, there were bound to be some itchy trigger fingers, American and Kuwaiti.2006, Seth W. B. Folsom, The Highway War, unnumbered page
  2. (idiomatic) The metaphorical trigger finger of a person with a tendency or readiness to act in haste or without consideration; a tendency to so act.
    • Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger.

Questions about itchy trigger fingers

What is itchy trigger fingers the plural of?
Itchy trigger fingers is the plural of itchy trigger finger.

Words near itchy trigger fingers in the dictionary

  1. itchy
  2. itchy feet
  3. itchy palm
  4. itchy palms
  5. itchy trigger finger
  6. itchy trigger fingers
  7. ITCZ
  8. ITCZs
  9. ITE
  10. itea
  11. iteas

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