stun grenade

noun

plural stun grenades

: an explosive device that produces a blinding flash of light and a sudden, loud noise : flash-bang

After initially holding back, the police fired stun grenades, tear gas and hard sponge bullets and sent in officers on horseback, prompting demonstrators to accuse them of the kind of police brutality that they had turned out to protest in the first place.

—Isabel Kershner

Examples of stun grenade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Largess also criticized the use of sting ball stun grenades on the crowd. —Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026

Police then relocated the worshippers one more time to a spot near the Old City walls when, moments later, officers threw stun grenades at the group. —Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026

People gathered along Salah al-Din street after police blocked them from approaching the Jerusalem old city walls, then used stun grenades to disperse the worshippers. —Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026

Flash-bang grenades, or stun grenades, are designed to disorient through a combination of deafening noise, blinding light, heat, fragmentation and pressure. —Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stun grenade

• accolade
• ambuscade
• antegrade
• balustrade
• barricade
• cannonade
• cavalcade
• centigrade
• chambermaid
• colonnade
• countertrade
• disobeyed