trigger-happyadjective
uk/ˈtrɪɡ.əˌhæp.i/us/ˈtrɪɡ.ɚˌhæp.i/informal Someone who is trigger-happy often uses his or her gun, shooting with very little reason:
Some have accused the police of being trigger-happy.
disapproving ready to use violence or force immediately, without careful thought:
He deplored the behaviour of his trigger-happy, hot-headed son.
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
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Doing things without fear or proper thought