pepper spray (usually uncountable, plural pepper sprays)
- A non-lethal chemical agent derived from peppers used in riot control and personal self-defense.
- Synonyms: capsicum spray, OC gas, OC spray, pepper gas
- Coordinate term: mace
The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
non-lethal riot-control agent
- Arabic: رشاش الفلفل
- Bengali: পিপার স্প্রে (pipar spre)
- Catalan: gas pebre
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 胡椒噴霧／胡椒喷雾 (wu4 ziu1 pan3 mou6)
- Mandarin: 胡椒噴霧／胡椒喷雾 (hújiāo pēnwù)
- Czech: pepřový sprej, pepřák (cs) m (colloquial)
- Danish: peberspray
- Dutch: pepperspray (nl)
- Finnish: pippurisumute, paprikasumutin (fi)
- French: gaz poivre (fr) m, gaz poivré (fr) m, poivre de Cayenne (fr) m
- Georgian: წიწაკის სპრეი (c̣ic̣aḳis sṗrei)
- German: Pfefferspray (de) n
- Hebrew: תרסיס פלפל
- Hungarian: paprikaspray, paprikaspré, paprikaszpré
- Icelandic: piparúði m
- Italian: gas OC
- Japanese: トウガラシスプレー (tōgarashi supurē)
- Korean: 후추 스프레이 (huchu seupeurei), 페퍼 스프레이 (pepeo seupeurei)
- Malay: penyembur lada
- Malayalam: പെപ്പർ സ്പ്രേ (peppaṟ sprē)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: pepperspray
- Persian: اسپری فلفل
- Polish: gaz pieprzowy
- Portuguese: spray de pimenta
- Russian: олеорези́н ка́псикум m (oleorezín kápsikum), перцо́вый аэрозо́ль m (percóvyj aerozólʹ), перцо́вый газ m (percóvyj gaz)
- Spanish: aerosol de pimienta
- Swedish: pepparsprej (sv) c
- Telugu: పెప్పర్ స్ప్రే (peppar sprē)
- Thai: สเปรย์พริกไทย
- Turkish: biber gazı (tr), biber spreyi
- Vietnamese: bình xịt hơi cay
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pepper spray (third-person singular simple present pepper sprays, present participle pepper spraying, simple past and past participle pepper sprayed)
- (transitive) To douse (someone or something) with pepper spray.
