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billy
1[ bil-ee ]
noun
- Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- a heavy wooden stick used as a weapon; cudgel.
- Scot. Dialect. comrade.
- Also called ·· [bil, -ee-kan]. Australian. any container in which water may be carried and boiled over a campfire, ranging from a makeshift tin can to a special earthenware kettle; any pot or kettle in which tea is boiled over a campfire.
- Textiles. (in Great Britain) a roving machine.
Billy
2[ bil-ee ]
noun
- a first name, often a form of William.
billy
1/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- a wooden club esp a police officer's truncheon
billy
2/ ˈɪɪˌkæn; ˈɪɪ /
noun
- a metal can or pot for boiling water, etc, over a campfire
- ( as modifier )
billy-tea
- informal.to make tea
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of billy1
Origin of billy2
Example Sentences
We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.
“There was a handful of cops on the other side with billy clubs. And when they came over that fence, they met them with a couple whacks to the head and dragged them off.”
Then, police officers attacked protesters with billy clubs, dragging them out of Grant Park in a show of bloody force.
“They were praying when the billy clubs struck.”
He called California’s billy club ban “a very vague and nebulous law that has been abused for decades in California.”
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