Definitions
an act that sets in motion some course of events
Word origin
Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).
Used in a sentence
“Just pull the trigger.”
“[W]e pull'd aſide the Tricker, and obſerv'd, that according to our expectation the force of the Spring of the Lock vvas not ſenſibly abated by the abſence of the Air.”
“Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Start mechanism”7 letters
02“Device that starts action”7 letters
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