tear gas noun

n [U]

Definition

a gas used by some police and armed forces to control crowds of people. It hurts the eyes and makes them produce tears.

(Definition of tear gas noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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