Thesaurus results for BILLY CLUB

billy club

noun

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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Recent Examples of billy club 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 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

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Noun

The minutes-long standstill forced several people into the street; many more, including my husband and his cane, engaged in a potentially perilous stutter-step around the two knee-high, randomly moving yet noncommunicative vehicles.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
As the Latin American and Caribbean flags waved across the giant sea of fans, with several people wearing the quintessentially Colombian black-and-white cane-fiber hats known as sombreros vueltiaos, a little girl sat atop her parent’s shoulders screaming with joy.

— Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2026