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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
Recent Examples on the Web
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
Benitez’s latest ruling on billy clubs also faces further review.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Contestants were humiliated or even beaten while ushers walked the aisles with billy clubs, threatening anyone who might leave.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
If the Second Amendment is not limited to firearms, Monday’s ruling also calls into question state-level bans on weapons like truncheons, saps, billy clubs, nunchucks, and the like.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
A couple of hundred soldiers came in with billy clubs.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
Recent filings by government attorneys in those lawsuits shed light on how the state, applying the Supreme Court’s new standard, is attempting to defend its laws that ban or restrict automatic weapons, high-capacity magazines, ammunition purchases and billy clubs.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2023
Chauvin’s trial also takes place about 75 years after a similarly extreme case of police brutality that helped shape the modern civil rights movement, when a Black Army veteran was blinded in police custody after being beaten in the eye with a billy club.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 30 Mar. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
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“Billy club.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billy%20club. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
billy club
noun
: a heavy wooden club
especially
: nightstick
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