Definition of billy club
: a heavy usually wooden club;
specifically
: a police officer's club
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rapping the shoes of the sleeping vagrant with his billy club, the policeman told him to move on
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State troopers on horseback had galloped into a crowd of about 100 marchers, swinging billy clubs, firing tear gas and knocking over marchers.
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An aggressive police response, complete with tear gas and billy clubs, led some protesters to retaliate with Molotov cocktails.
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Violence had followed, with police descending on the protesters with billy clubs, mace and tear gas.
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These features gave tear gas novelty value in a market where only the billy club and bullets were currently available.
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Stella Perris, who was known as Greektown's schizophrenic street lady and would rant at passersby and carry a billy club for protection, sometimes took up residence at 1300 Beaubien.
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Outside, dozens of uniformed officers were waiting with billy clubs and paddy wagons.
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His mouth was agape and like, 'Now, wait a minute, wait a minute,' and this cop put a billy club under his chin and started marching him.
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Police charged him with operating a vehicle while impaired, hit skip, failure to control, possession of dangerous drugs, carrying various weapons (knives and a billy club, drug paraphernalia (pot pipe), and open container.
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