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riot gear

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n. All the protective clothing, shields and weaponry worn or carried by a force attempting to control a riot.

Usage examples of riot gear.

Some of them were still on their feet, and they had all abandoned the useless riot gear for the guns on their backs.

The three bureaucrats were immaculately dressed in expensive suits and were escorted by a platoon of soldiers in riot gear.

A police officer in riot gear stood beside it, vigilantly scanning the street, shotgun in hand.

The parking lot was jammed with black & whites and deputies in full riot gear.

Double lines of police, stern-faced and in riot gear, stood posted at both ends of the street and in a semicircle around the embassy's main entrance.

It was hoped that the march organizers would simply fail to get the protest together or, coming upon the ranks of uniformed cops in riot gear, they would turn back into the park where officers on horseback could disperse them.