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billy

[bil-ee] / ˈbɪl i /




NOUN
goat
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We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2025

Alan Beck is counsel for the plaintiffs in both the California billy club case and the Hawaii butterfly knife case.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2024

The challenged California law bans the possession, manufacture, importation or sale of “any leaded cane, or any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a billy, blackjack, sandbag, sandclub, sap, or slungshot.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Mr. Roman in 2008 first publicized “the presence of two members of the New Black Panther Party — one carrying a billy club — outside of a Philadelphia polling site.”

From Washington Times Aug. 15, 2023

She was careful to keep the hole itself blocked so he wouldn’t notice it as she hooked his billy goats into their traces.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Blindfolded by their helmets, billies more or less at the ready, they go through their maneuvers like a ruptured accordion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sweaty, swaying bodies surged across the square toward the Embassy, where tin-helmeted Egyptian police barred the way with billies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pair of young billies butted each other with their horns, but most of the time the animals were perfectly orderly.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Well, billies," he cried jovially, "what do you think?

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)




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