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Meanings of billy in English
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
Synonyms
Examples for "club"
Examples for "club"
1
Long term, Roy is the great answer to this football club's problem.
2
The club will continue to support him however we can, he said.
3
It doesn't happen often these days where club plays country, Sampson said.
4
Prolific club form hints at first Irish try if given the chance.
5
I let him lead me into the main area of the club.
1
He also said baton rounds were already authorised for use by police.
2
After two days of this I left my lucky baton at home.
3
Water cannon vehicles were used extensively and one non-lethal baton round fired.
4
Carries a silver tipped baton with which he leads the school children.
5
The former rebels in the Acehnese government will now take the baton.
1
Maduro used the diplomatic mission as a cudgel to batter his critics.
2
The lead guard restashed his cudgel then returned to the duke's side.
3
The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand.
4
Grasping the cudgel he again made his way up-stairs, candle in hand.
5
A brace of cudgel-wielding metal men moved forward to greet the visitors.
1
It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.
2
It was the hand of the man; that hand was a bludgeon.
3
They must have lost my track completely after their bludgeon-man was arrested.
4
The changes would mean farmers could bludgeon newborn calves only in emergencies.
5
Assassination isn't just a political tool-it'sa bludgeon, not a precise instrument.
1
Next the Knighte Marshall alone in armour and bases with a truncheon.
2
Protesters who rushed the police line were quickly subdued with truncheon blows.
3
It was a Fuck You to every state employee with a truncheon.
4
And with the truncheon of that spear he threw down many knights.
5
He'd pulled a telescopic steel truncheon out from under his body armour.
1
The nightstick swung down and grazed his shoulder but he kept moving.
2
In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.
3
Kelly's nightstick got his pneumonia gas jet, or whatever you call it.
4
The one with the mustache was doing baton-twirler tricks with his nightstick.
5
Hal poked her shoulder with the nightstick, hard enough to hurt.Hey, bitch.
1
It made a better weapon than a wooden billy club.
2
The rattle of a billy club along bars woke me.
3
Manuel stopped me by drawing his billy club and slamming it hard against the table.
4
She blinked at Maggie, who was holding her map rolled up like a billy club.
5
Startled, Az drew away and pulled his billy club.
1
The uniform stepped up, hand on the butt of his night stick.
2
The policeman stared after us through the mist, rolling his night stick in his hand.
3
However it was the officer who impatiently broke the silence, swinging his night stick menacingly:
4
As a policeman drove them away with his night stick that evening they plighted their troth.
5
There came to them from outside the tap-tap-tap-tap of a policeman's night stick rattling on the curbstone.
Usage of billy in English
1
They are like billy-goats on a young plantation; they do mischief everywhere.
2
I bet it was on account of that billy and the ewes.
3
The old billy believes that the best defense is a vigorous offense.
4
Moral suasion tends to supersede the birch stick and the policeman's billy.
5
Twice Born Men by Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Best tunes of the year.
6
Billy sank his voice, as one who discusses great secrets of State.
7
Pressing the point, Billy said, But you still haven't told me why?
8
You and Billy get your crime scene kits and work this scene.
9
Billy Ederle will soon be movin' on up, and good for him.
10
Billy Twelvetrees added a penalty to give his side a four-point lead.
11
Billy, frequently calls his father at work, which makes Greta feel guilty.
12
In fact, Billy Ray and I are starting new jobs on Monday.
13
Billy Tang, who was at home the time, said he was livid.
14
Billy Bragg visited New Zealand for the seventh time in October 2012.
15
My hall's team, the Billy Goats, has done fairly well this year.
16
Billy took the bow and pulled; I took the stern and pushed.
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United Kingdom
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