gun-happy

comparative more gun-happy · superlative most gun-happy

1. derogatoryOverly fond of and inclined to use guns or advocate gun violence.

   He was gun-happy. He shot up jukeboxes and shelves full of booze.

   2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia

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   I suppose he thought he could buffalo me with that gun-happy swagger of his, so that I would hasten to assure him that nothing was further from the truth.

   2001, Jason Manning, Gunmaster

   “Is she gun-happy?” “Certainly not. When you're properly trained in the use of guns, you don't become gun-happy, as you call it.”

   2011, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy

   'Damn cops,' said a CSI, who concentrated on the holes in the bark of a tree, the only holes not made by gun-happy rat killers.

   2012, Carol O'Connell, The Chalk Girl: Kathy Mallory

   Guy remarked that the cubs were lucky to be on Canadian soil rather than in the gun-happy United States, where they would be dead by now. And Lulu scoffed. "Come on" she said. "Your gun-happy Canadian neighbour just shot their mother."

   2016, Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life