Usually means: Extremely sensitive, reacts to slight touch.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hair trigger:

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  1. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Merriam-Webster
  2. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hair-trigger, hair trigger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hair-trigger, hair-trigger, hair trigger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hair trigger: Vocabulary.com
  6. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Wordnik
  7. hair-trigger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Wiktionary
  9. hair-trigger, hair trigger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hair trigger: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hair trigger, hair-trigger, hair trigger: Dictionary.com
  12. Hair trigger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Rhymezone
  14. hair trigger: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hair trigger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hair-trigger, hair trigger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hair trigger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hair-trigger, hair trigger: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hair trigger: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hair trigger)

noun:  (figurative, US) Any unstable situation.
noun:  (US) Alternative form of hair-trigger [A trigger that will set off a firearm when even a very small pressure is applied.]
adjective:  Alternative form of hair-trigger [Unstable; in a situation that could be worsened by the slightest mistake.]

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