as in cane
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
police officers carry a billy while patrolling on foot
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Recent Examples of billy
Mountain goats, especially mature billies, are very predictable in their daily routines this time of year, Richard told me.
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Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2025
Its First New Hit Song In Almost A Decade
hugh mcintyre
steven bertoni
jen reeder
lien de pau
billy bambrough
sara dorn
Taking The Practical Steps To AI Deployment
christine ahn
The Best Way To Future-Proof Your Business In The Age Of AI?
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
The rapper-producer enlisted Armand Hammer’s billy woods and Elucid, Open Mike Eagle, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib for Black Hole Superette.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2025
More importantly, Vance cast himself as an extraordinary exception to his fellow Appalachians, describing ’billies as encased in a toxic amber that kept them from improving their lot and left them embittered with a country that has moved on without them.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
Hip-Hop In 2013, the indie-rap lifers billy woods and Elucid joined forces to become Armand Hammer, a clear-eyed, thrilling guerrilla duo with a penchant for cutting through nonsense.
—The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2025
Its First New Hit Song In Almost A Decade
hugh mcintyre
steven bertoni
jen reeder
lien de pau
billy bambrough
sara dorn
Taking The Practical Steps To AI Deployment
christine ahn
The Best Way To Future-Proof Your Business In The Age Of AI?
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
The rapper-producer enlisted Armand Hammer’s billy woods and Elucid, Open Mike Eagle, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib for Black Hole Superette.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2025
More importantly, Vance cast himself as an extraordinary exception to his fellow Appalachians, describing ’billies as encased in a toxic amber that kept them from improving their lot and left them embittered with a country that has moved on without them.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
Hip-Hop In 2013, the indie-rap lifers billy woods and Elucid joined forces to become Armand Hammer, a clear-eyed, thrilling guerrilla duo with a penchant for cutting through nonsense.
—The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billy
Noun
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As Simeon and Tupe engaged in soothing effleurage and loudly vigorous tapotement, respectively, six Maori women surrounded their tables and sang folk songs in harmony, guided by an elder in the audience with a long, gnarled cane.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Now 77, widowed, remarried and using hearing aids and a cane, Novy hasn’t seen an increase in his $1,575 monthly worker’s compensation check — nor have the other more than 300 other PTD recipients — since 2016.—
TOM KERTSCHER,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Under the baton of Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green, the Charlotte Symphony will be joined by Sphinx Virtuosi, the chamber orchestra of the Sphinx Organization, a national non-profit organization based in Detroit.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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Reuters reported that police used water cannons, batons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Billy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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