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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

Where bambinos, billy goats and boogeymen curse entire teams.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

The Yurok, who sought to defend their fishing rights and tribal sovereignty, faced off with officers in riot gear holding billy clubs and M-16 rifles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

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

Two of the billy goats pulled it like draft ponies.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

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

But we had our cooking-pots and billies, our sheath-knives, wooden skewers, fingers, and O'Gaygun's shingle-plates.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay


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