gassing

gassing
 n.— «Officers endure bites, kicks, punches, and being doused by a brew of toilet waste that is tossed through cell door openings. Officers call it “gassing.”» —“This is the gaping maw, the jaws through which convicts pass to be evaluated” by John Hurst, Dan Morain Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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