as in cane
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
rapping the shoes of the sleeping vagrant with his billy club, the officer told him to move on
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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.
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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
As the handmaids spill into the crowd, using their knives at will, Phoebe gets hold of a gun and a billy club and uses both as though she’s been professionally trained.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Law enforcement attacked 600 of the protesters with billy clubs and tear gas.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
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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
As the handmaids spill into the crowd, using their knives at will, Phoebe gets hold of a gun and a billy club and uses both as though she’s been professionally trained.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Law enforcement attacked 600 of the protesters with billy clubs and tear gas.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for billy club
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billy club
Noun
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Africans were now being brought in to replace disappearing Taino, to pan rivers, dig mines, herd cows, and cut cane.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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The least of Johansson’s worries was Squibb, whose main physical limitation was walking with a cane.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
22 Sep. 2025
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Early that morning at the Ashmont MBTA station, Bartlett physically assaulted a homeless man without legal justification – striking the victim in the leg three times with a steel police baton.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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The following day, conductor Reab Ahmed took the baton, widely celebrated as the youngest and first Saudi maestro to lead national orchestra.—
Billboard Arabia,
Billboard,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Billy club.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billy%20club. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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