rubber ball blast grenade

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  • A type of non-lethal crowd-suppression grenade that spews out semi-hard plastic-coated steel balls similar to rubber bullets when it blasts apart.

Etymology

Compound from English rubber + English ball (testicle, round object)+ English blast (immature cell)+ English grenade.

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grenade

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