trigger man
See also: triggerman
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Noun edit
trigger man (plural trigger men)
- Alternative form of triggerman
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 63:
- Al always showed up surrounded by a gang of trigger men – they sat in a corner, very gay and noisy but gunning the whole situation out of the corners of their eyes.