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A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
club
billy
baton
cudgel
bludgeon
truncheon
nightstick
billy club
billystick
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.
6
He returned the children's stare in the friendliest possible fashion, twirling his banner stone as a policeman does his
night
stick
.
7
A blue coat and brass buttons, to say nothing of a
night
stick
,
are often invaluable stage properties in the last act of the melodrama.
8
That boy was having the time of his life and it would have pleased me immeasurably to paddle him to sleep with Harmony's
night
stick
.
9
Moral Superiority, bibles,
night
sticks
and sacks of I-don't-have-a-problem-with-gays-but in hand, ready for battle.
10
Night
sticks
viciously swing at legs.
11
Large crowds had spent the
night
stuck
on Macedonia's southern border, and attempted to charge police in the morning.
12
Three gray-clad policemen, tough, clean-shaven men with keen eyes and square jaws, stood there, revolvers in one hand,
night
sticks
in the other.
13
Previous White
Nights
stick
in my memory primarily for my inability to get near any of the main action amid the pressing swarms.
14
Police have made about 100 arrests and used pepper spray, which they called a better alternative than
night
sticks
to subdue those blocking traffic.
15
It would be a slow road back, but thanks to that
night
stuck
in a lift, not as slow as she had first envisioned.