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tear-gas

alt. (alternative spelling of tear gas English) n. (alternative spelling of tear gas English) vb. (alternative spelling of tear gas English)

Usage examples of "tear-gas".

For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs.

A trash can behind the guards is half-filled with penknives, bottle openers, cigarette lighters, and tear-gas dispensers, discarded by those who would rather part with them than rush them back to dorm rooms or cars, and thereby risk missing the lecture.

It consisted of a flurry of tear-gas bombs, then a wave of men armed with guns, protected by bulletproof vests.

Even then the situation might have been manageable-a tear-gas shell might have been able to confuse the jokers enough to send them running back to the relative safety of the park.

The new British gun, which Jack had acquired from a black-market arms dealer in Miami, had a two-inch bore and fired a high-velocity, steel-jacketed tear-gas shell that could penetrate most wooden doors or punch through a boarded window.

Both of them got tear-gassed coming out of the Hilton Hotel, and poor Chips got thrown in a paddy-wagon with a bunch of young radicals.