Jam
Trigger
Trigger verb - To cause to function.
Usage example: mold triggers my allergies
Common collocations
| device | jam device | trigger device |
| time | jam time | trigger time |
| transformation | jam transformation | trigger transformation |
| door | jam door | trigger door |
| Other words: alarm. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Unfortunately her toast with jam lands on his crotch jam side down, creating the initial trigger of his series of Accidental Pervert encounters with the other main characters.
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I guarantee, this baby will not jam, or my name ain't Turk Barrett.[Cuts to Healy pulling the trigger in the bowling alley, and it jams on him.
Source: Series / Daredevil - Clears the jam, sticks it in his face again, pulls the trigger... nothing.
Source: Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Trigger and Jam. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/jam/trigger
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