truncheoned; truncheoning; truncheons
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Noun
police officers kept their hands on their truncheons
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
Each side must field somewhere between two and eleven players, some of whom shall carry flattened truncheons, while others toss about leather balls.
—Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
Later, after riot police used truncheons and tear gas to disperse the people, demonstrators set up tent camps with barricades, self-defense units, and banners with revolutionary slogans.
—Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
One is lined with corporate PR speak, the other with police truncheons.
—WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
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Noun
It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
Each side must field somewhere between two and eleven players, some of whom shall carry flattened truncheons, while others toss about leather balls.
—Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
Later, after riot police used truncheons and tear gas to disperse the people, demonstrators set up tent camps with barricades, self-defense units, and banners with revolutionary slogans.
—Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
One is lined with corporate PR speak, the other with police truncheons.
—WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
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“Truncheon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truncheon. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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