trigger finger

Noun

Meaning

a finger used in pulling the trigger of a firearm

the forefinger

(medicine) difficulty encountered in finger flexion or extension caused by the narrowing of the sheath that surrounds that finger's tendon

Examples

Nobody could have predicted that two of them, Dylan Ellis, 26, and Oliver Martin, 25, would soon be dead — gunned down in the wee hours of Friday the 13th, June 2008, by a stone cold killer with an itchy trigger finger who has nev. Source: Internet

"They told me I couldn't be in the Army without a trigger finger," Miller recollected in a recent interview. Source: Internet

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