Usually means: Irritant causing pain, tears, temporary blindness.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear gas: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tear gas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tear-gas, tear gas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tear gas: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tear gas: Vocabulary.com
  6. tear-gas: Wordnik
  7. tear gas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tear-gas, tear gas: Wiktionary
  9. tear-gas, tear gas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tear gas: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tear-gas, tear gas: Dictionary.com
  12. Tear Gas (The Jacka album), Tear Gas (album), Tear gas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. tear gas: Rhymezone
  14. tear gas: Free Dictionary
  15. tear gas: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. tear-gas: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. tear gas: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear gas: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear-gas, tear gas: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. tear-gas, tear gas: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear gas: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tear gas)

noun:  Any lachrymatory, non-lethal chemical compound that causes the eyes to sting and water and/or irritates the respiratory system, mostly used for controlling crowds during riots or as self-defense.
verb:  To use tear gas.

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