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billy club

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Synonyms and Antonyms of billy club

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

Synonyms of billy club

bastinado (or bastinade), bat, baton, billy, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, nightstick, rod, rung [Scottish], sap, shillelagh (also shillalah), staff, truncheon, waddy [Australian]

Words Related to billy club

blackjack, knobkerrie, mace

birch, crabstick, hickory, rattan, stave, switch

beetle, gavel, hammer, mallet, maul, sledgehammer

crook, crosier (or crozier), walking stick, whangee

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