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单词 pepper-spray
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pepper-sprayv.

Brit. /ˈpɛpəspreɪ/, U.S. /ˈpɛpərˌspreɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pepper spray n.
Etymology: < pepper spray n. Compare earlier pepper-gas v.
Chiefly North American.
transitive. To douse with pepper spray.
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1993 Re: Choked up over Disneyland in rec.arts.disney (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Mar. No way! I'm not going to risk getting pepper-sprayed!
1994 This Mag. (Toronto) Nov. 20/2 ARA members brought saline solution to demonstrations in case they got pepper-sprayed.
1997 Bloomington (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.
2001 Canad. Geographic Mar. 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.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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