TROUBLE MAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trouble maker mean? 

• TROUBLE MAKER (noun)
  The noun TROUBLE MAKER has 1 sense:

1. someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

  Familiarity information: TROUBLE MAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUBLE MAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler

Hypernyms ("trouble maker" is a kind of...):

persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trouble maker"):

agitator; fomenter (one who agitates; a political troublemaker)

disturber (a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion)

badgerer; heckler (someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections)

devil; heller; hellion (a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man))

hellhound (a very evil man)

firebrand; inciter; instigant; instigator; provoker (someone who deliberately foments trouble)

blusterer; loudmouth (a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly)

cut-up; hoaxer; practical joker; prankster; tricker; trickster (someone who plays practical jokes on others)

rioter (troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority)

 Context examples 

Given the name Nemesis, this theoretical trouble maker has been proposed as a reason behind an apparent 27-million-year cycle of extinctions on Earth, including the one that saw off most of the dinosaurs.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)