sneeze machine, noun phrase

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Also sneezing machine.
A cannon-like device used for spraying tear-gas; sneezer.
1977 Drum Aug. 25Again the clash of white and black sides erupted in violence. A sneezing machine had to be called in as missiles flew into the field five minutes from the end of play.
1979 Survey of Race Rel. 1978 (S.A.I.R.R.) 75At White City, Jabavu, the police used the sneeze machine to stop youths from stoning a Putco bus.
1981 Rand Daily Mail 17 June 1The ‘sneeze machine’ was used, and police said 10 rubber bullets were fired.
1984 E. Prov. Herald 24 Sept. 1Hundreds covered their faces and ran away as palls of tear smoke from a sneeze machine on the back of a police van engulfed the camp.
1985 Cape Times 3 Dec.A Middleburg policeman..told a magistrate..yesterday that he ordered a sneeze machine moved from the vicinity of a cemetery where an unrest victim was being buried.
1986 Cape Times 17 Mar.Casspirs, Buffels, sneeze machines and police vans cordoned off the townships.
A cannon-like device used for spraying tear-gas; sneezer.
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