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pepper-spray, v. Chiefly N. Amer.
Brit. |ˈpɛpəspreɪ|, U.S. |ˈpɛpərˌspreɪ|
[‹ pepper spray n. Compare earlier pepper-gas v.]
trans. To douse with pepper spray.
1993Re: Choked up over Disneyland in rec.arts.disney (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Mar. No way! I'm not going to risk getting pepper-sprayed! 1994This Mag. (Toronto) Nov. 20/2 ARA members brought saline solution to demonstrations in case they got pepper-sprayed. 1997Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 3 Sept. c2/2 He was found at Bloomington Hospital around 6 a.m. Sunday after telling a nurse that police had pepper-sprayed him. 2001Canad. Geogr. Mar.–Apr. 42/1 Grizzlies fear people because so much of their experience with humans is threatening: we hunt them..; we pepper-spray them if we stumble into a face-to-face encounter. |