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  • verb To douse someone with pepper spray.

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Examples

  • There were pepper-spray incidents on female protesters, mass arrests on the Brooklyn bridge and a secretive early-morning raid to clear the park.

    New York's ardour for Michael Bloomberg cools 2011

  • Among the items are 20 pairs of swimming goggles to shield protesters from pepper-spray attacks.

    Occupy Wall Street live: one month on 2011

  • The protests started slowly but were boosted three weeks ago when police arrested Besigye for the fourth time, dousing him with pepper-spray at point-blank range before hauling him on to a truck.

    Yoweri Museveni casts foreign media as Uganda's enemies over protest coverage 2011

  • Some South African ATMs have pepper-spray squirters that are intended to debilitate anyone who tries to tamper with them or install a card-skimmer.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • As I have noted recently, this downward slide did not begin with the Conservatives: Pierre "Just watch me" Trudeau set the tone, and Jean Chrétien centralized all meaningful power in the PMO, ruling the country with an iron fist and the odd burst of pepper-spray.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Police were forced to detain or pepper-spray some unruly members of the crowd as other protesters yelled “Allahu Akbar” – “God isgreat.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Under-18 Offender Unconstitutional, When the Crime Is Not Homicide 2010

  • All three new offences carry a range of on-the spot penalties, ranging from a damn good twatting with a riot baton up to the application of police dogs, tasers, pepper-spray and firearms at the discretion of the officer doing the beating.

    Justice Ministry: New Laws for Police Introduced Dungeekin 2009

  • It was unclear Tuesday what element of Mr. Bologna's pepper-spray use was found to be improper.

    Pepper-Spray Use Is Faulted Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • All three new offences carry a range of on-the spot penalties, ranging from a damn good twatting with a riot baton up to the application of police dogs, tasers, pepper-spray and firearms at the discretion of the officer doing the beating.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • As I have noted recently, this downward slide did not begin with the Conservatives: Pierre "Just watch me" Trudeau set the tone, and Jean Chrétien centralized all meaningful power in the PMO, ruling the country with an iron fist and the odd burst of pepper-spray.

    Going 'rogue 2009

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