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gasmask

gasmask is the alternative form 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

Forms of gasmask

pluralgasmasks

Questions about gasmask

What is gasmask the alternative form of?
Gasmask is the alternative form of gas mask.

Words near gasmask in the dictionary

  1. gaslocks
  2. Gasly
  3. gasmaker
  4. gasmakers
  5. gasman
  6. gasmask
  7. gasmasked
  8. gasmasks
  9. gasmen
  10. Gasmouloi
  11. Gasmoulos

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