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gas masks

gas masks is the plural of gas mask.

Meaning of gas mask

Noun

gas mask (plural gas masks)

  1. A covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.
    • If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.1991 December 15, Saadia Everett, “Protest Beatings”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 4

Questions about gas masks

What is gas masks the plural of?
Gas masks is the plural of gas mask.

Words near gas masks in the dictionary

  1. gas mantle
  2. gas mantles
  3. gas mark
  4. gas marks
  5. gas mask
  6. gas masks
  7. gas mechanics
  8. gas meter
  9. gas meter bandit
  10. gas meter bandits
  11. gas meters

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