Antipersonnel
used against enemy rather than against mechanized vehicles, matériel, etc.:
antipersonnel bombs.
historical examples
hilda was in the slam in madison, and who the h-ll knew what the antipersonnel stuff the madison cops used had done to her.
makers cory doctorow
it was their antipersonnel sound-cannon, which meant that lester was around here somewhere.
makers cory doctorow
adjective
(of weapons, etc) designed to cause casualties to personnel rather than to destroy equipment or defences ap
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