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Synonyms
Examples of nightstick in a Sentence
police officers fitted out with nightsticks and handcuffs
Recent Examples on the Web
Right Now Paul Buhle, then a history graduate student at UW-Madison and editor of New Left magazine Radical America, participated in the Dow sit-in and managed to avoid the blows of nightsticks.
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TIME, 10 May 2024
The interrogators used unauthorized dogs, humiliated inmates by forcing them to wear women's underwear, forced detainees into stress positions, and directed a military police sergeant to push and twist a nightstick into a detainee's arm, the investigations found.
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Matthew Barakat, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
An officer armed with a nightstick stood under him and whacked him hard on the foot.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
In the early 1800s, officers blew whistles and rapped their nightsticks to alert people to crimes.
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Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
Video from the protests shows police aggressively flogging protesters with nightsticks.
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Phil McCausland, NBC News, 1 May 2023
That nightstick is used to rape people, women and men.
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Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2020
In the image of Trump rushing the police officers, the A.I. generator has fused the former president’s lower half with that of a cop, so Trump appears to be sporting a nightstick in a holster belt.
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Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
The president and his fellow marchers climbed to the part of the bridge where, 58 years ago, peaceful protesters were beaten with nightsticks and tear gassed by a group of white police officers.
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Katie Rogers, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
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“Nightstick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nightstick. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
nightstick
noun
night·stick
-ˌstik
: a police officer's club
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