baton round

British  

noun

1. the official name for plastic bullet

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Example Sentences

Despite relay medals supplying five of GB's 10 athletics medals at last summer's Games, there was no success here - with the men's 4x100m quartet failing to get the baton round in their heat.

From BBC

Leicestershire Police said the "less lethal option of a baton round" was used against the man by armed officers.

From BBC

Salmomée Souag, 23, of Portland, Ore., shared a picture showing a hard rubber pellet she found in the street that appeared to be a riot-control device known as a baton round.

From Washington Post

Police officers used a baton round on a man reported to be threatening people with a knife.

From BBC

Surrey Police said a man who was hit with a baton round was taken to hospital with bruising to his stomach.

From BBC