To get mad at a small or impractical thing.
Or just get completely pissed, most people who get triggered are easily offended.
Or just get completely pissed, most people who get triggered are easily offended.
by TrafficTheCone December 7, 2016

by CoolPete01 April 1, 2017

nickname of Willie Nelson's Martin N-20 Classical guitar, In 1969, Nelson purchased the guitar unseen for $750 in Nashville fom "Shot" Jackson and named it after Roy Rogers' horse "Trigger". The next year Nelson rescued the guitar from his burning ranch & moved back to Texas
For more than 40 years Willie Nelson has been playing a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic guitar he named Trigger.
by biogeorge December 6, 2012

In the criminal lexicon "trigger" used to describe a hot-tempered person, fast for killing (without thoughts about consequences). Hi-ranked criminal leaders often call thier enforsers with a word "trigger". In this case "tigger" is the synonym for "soldier" or "killer".
"Man he's gonna kill you. His a damn trigger!!!"
"Sforcsa has sent his triggers to deal with the rivals"
"Sforcsa has sent his triggers to deal with the rivals"
by GhostShade January 22, 2008

A mental state in which people object themselves into thinking they should be offended by something out of idiocy, an over-inflated ego, of simply having nothing better to do.
Triggered: needlessly offended
White Straight Male: I believe there are only two genders
LGBT Member: T R I G G E R E D
White Straight Male: I believe there are only two genders
LGBT Member: T R I G G E R E D
by AyeAron October 3, 2016

by Nicole Dolling April 3, 2010

1. A temporary aggressive state of mind of a person or populace that was induced by current events or actions that person associates to a traumatic incident in their past.
2. A sequence of violent or catastrophic events initiated by an initial "triggering" action.
An allusion to the mechanical operation of a gun. Where as a firearm trigger is used and the operator of the gun bares the responsibility for the outcome. The "triggered" persons that carry out damage takes on the roll of the inanimate firearm. Responsibility is generally deferred onto the person who pulled the trigger, knowingly or otherwise.
This includes an inherit abdication of personal accountability for one's aggressive state onto the person or event who commited the triggering incident or original traumatic experience.
2. A sequence of violent or catastrophic events initiated by an initial "triggering" action.
An allusion to the mechanical operation of a gun. Where as a firearm trigger is used and the operator of the gun bares the responsibility for the outcome. The "triggered" persons that carry out damage takes on the roll of the inanimate firearm. Responsibility is generally deferred onto the person who pulled the trigger, knowingly or otherwise.
This includes an inherit abdication of personal accountability for one's aggressive state onto the person or event who commited the triggering incident or original traumatic experience.
1. Jill threw dishes at Dave. She was triggered when Dave mentioned going to get a pail of water. Jill's brother Jack died getting a pail of water.
2. The incident triggered an armed clash.
3. Marie Antoinette's flippant remark triggered a revolt.
2. The incident triggered an armed clash.
3. Marie Antoinette's flippant remark triggered a revolt.
by WeMako April 30, 2021
