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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Both items, along with a billy club, methamphetamine pipes, and rubber tubing, were found during a search of his RV, according to police. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025 On that day, civil rights marchers, protesting for voting rights for Black Americans, were attacked by state troopers with tear gas, billy clubs, and horses. Kathy Schmitz, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025 In August 1900, white civilians and white cops rioted as one, unleashing two days of indiscriminate attacks against dozens of Black Hell’s Kitchen residents using lead pipes, guns, knives, fists, and billy clubs in what remains one of the largest explosions of racist violence in city history. Erin Quinlan, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025 Mayhem erupted when the strikers were attacked with tear gas and billy clubs. Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for billy club

Word History

Etymology

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First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of billy club was in 1885

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“Billy club.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billy%20club. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

Kids Definition

billy club

noun
: a heavy wooden club
especially : nightstick
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