riot gun

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   a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death

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Questions about riot gun

What does riot gun mean?

riot gun means "a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death".

Is riot gun a common word?

riot gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.