"grim trigger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grim triggers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grim trigger (plural grim triggers)
  1. (game theory) A strategy that always cooperates as long as the opponent does not defect, in which case thereafter the strategy always defects. Categories (topical): Game theory

Inflected forms

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