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plastic bullet
noun
A non-lethal projectile made of aluminium carcase and plastic head, designed to be fired from a specialized gun, for riot control.
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Exact(27)
The Sakhnin fans will say it was a plastic bullet.
"We will not stop before the embargo is over," said Mr. Goker, who had a purple bruise on his arm where a plastic bullet had hit him.
He was invited to Derry by Richard Moore who, blinded by a plastic bullet at the age of ten, is now director of the charity Children in Crossfire.
Dr. Gross was awarded the Medal for Merit in 1948 for his invention of a plastic bullet for gunnery training in World War II.
A fourth youth, shot through the heart with a plastic bullet, was described as "brain dead," kept alive only by machine.
Fine metal wires embedded in a transparent plastic bullet receive surges of electric cur rent as they pass Patents a side opening in the barrel.
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"There were plastic bullets fired.
The officers responded with water cannons and plastic bullets.
The paratroopers fired plastic bullets, hoping to disperse the crowd.
Riot police fired at least four plastic bullets.
The police said they fired rarely used plastic bullets.
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