flash-bang
n.— «While the flash-bang, as they are called in the trade, looks, operates and explodes much like a grenade, it’s meant to cause shock, not damage, police said.» —“State trooper is injured by flash-bang grenade” by Stephanie Heinatz Virginian Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) Aug. 4, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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