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billy
noun as in baton
Weak match
noun as in club
noun as in cudgel
noun as in night stick
Example Sentences
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.
“There was a handful of cops on the other side with billy clubs. And when they came over that fence, they met them with a couple whacks to the head and dragged them off.”
Then, police officers attacked protesters with billy clubs, dragging them out of Grant Park in a show of bloody force.
“They were praying when the billy clubs struck.”
He called California’s billy club ban “a very vague and nebulous law that has been abused for decades in California.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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