billy club

noun

: a heavy usually wooden club

specifically : a police officer's club

Examples of billy club in a Sentence

rapping the shoes of the sleeping vagrant with his billy club, the officer told him to move on

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These include air rifles, paintball guns, combat gloves, billy clubs, swords, axes, slingshots, metal water bottles, aerosol cans, ladders, BB guns, pellet guns, nunchucks, shovels or other things that could be used to hurt people or damage property. —

Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024 The officers’ superior should give an order that if this happens again, use their billy clubs — start swinging and don’t stop until the screaming stops. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024 Then, police officers attacked protesters with billy clubs, dragging them out of Grant Park in a show of bloody force. —

Mitch Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2024 Have some form of self-protection such as mace, pepper spray, a taser, a crowbar, a billy club, a small baseball bat or a metal flashlight. —

Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for billy club