Crossword clues for billy
billy
- Type of goat
- Kid's dad
- Keystone Kop's club
- Evangelist Graham
- Director Wilder
- Comedian Crystal
- Winery Dogs bassist Sheehan
- The Phantom star, ... Zane
- Singer Joel
- Policeman's club
- Melville's Budd
- Melville's "--- Budd"
- Melville's ___ Budd
- Intro to Bob Thornton
- He can be an old goat
- Evangelist Sunday
- Country rocker Currington
- "Difficult People" actor Eichner
- __ goat (male barnyard beast)
- Name associated with the starts of 17-, 27-, 48- and 64-Across
- Kid's father
- A policeman's club
- Male goat
- Budd created by Melville
- Melville's "___ Budd"
- Showman Rose
- Nanny's mate
- Budd or Sunday
- Truncheon
- Graham
- Copland's "___ the Kid"
- Stout schoolboy can joke where Ungraded replaces A
- Name associated with the
- Light metal cooking pot used for camping
- Boys now and then nurse sick goat
- Boy's name
- ___ Club
- Type of club
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Billy \Bil"ly\, n.
A club; esp., a policeman's club. Also called billy club
(Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"club," 1848, American English, originally burglars' slang for "crowbar;" meaning "policeman's club" first recorded 1856, probably from nickname of William, applied to various objects (compare jack, jimmy, jenny).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A billy club. 2 A billy goat. 3 # A male goat; a ram. 4 (context Geordie English) A good friend. 5 (context Australia New Zealand English) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot. 6 (context UK Australia English) A billycan. 7 (context slang English) A condom (From the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy...Boy") 8 A slubbing or rove machine.
WordNet
n. a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, billystick, billy club]
male goat [syn: billy goat, he-goat]
Wikipedia
Billy may refer to:
- Billy (name), including a list of people with the name
Billy is a lunar crater that is located at the southern fringes of the Oceanus Procellarum, in the western hemisphere of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the similar-sized crater Hansteen, and west-southwest of the flooded Letronne.
The interior floor of Billy has been flooded by basaltic lava, leaving a dark surface due to the low albedo. The portion of the rim remaining above the surface is narrow and low, with a thin inner wall. Only a few tiny craterlets mark the interior.
To the north of the crater is a triangular mountainous formation named Mons Hansteen, from the nearby crater. Southeast of Billy is a rille, designated Rima Billy, that runs 70 kilometers to the south.
Billy is an American sitcom that aired on ABC for half a season from January to May 1992. A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series stars Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself.
"Billy" is episode 6 of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell and directed by David Grossman, it was originally broadcast on October 29, 2001 on the WB television network. In this episode, Angel investigates a wave of violence against women throughout Los Angeles, caused by Billy's ability to infect men with murderous misogyny. Cordelia seeks the aid of Lilah, who is a victim of Billy’s power, while Fred finds herself in danger from an infected Wesley.
Billy is a 1990 novel by Whitley Strieber. The novel tells the story of the abduction of a child and the terror of his experience.
A Billy is a large scenthound originating from central western France.
Billy is a musical based on the novel and play Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The book was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the music is by John Barry, and the lyrics are by Don Black.
Billy is the third album from the American band, Samiam, released in 1992 on New Red Archives.
Billy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February to April 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar.
Billy is the fourth album of noise rock band feedtime, released on March 23, 1996 by Amphetamine Reptile Records. It was the band's first album after they went on hiatus in 1989.
Tom Hazelmyer, founder and owner of Amphetamine Reptile, named Billy one of his favourite releases.
'''Billy, ''' or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a Pygmy Hippopotamus given as a pet to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Samuel Firestone in 1927. Billy spent most of his life in the National Zoo in Washington D.C.. In addition to his fame as an exotic presidential pet—which afforded him a trip to the 1939 New York World's Fair—Billy is also notable as the common ancestor to most pygmy hippos in American zoos. By the time of his death in 1955, Billy had sired 23 calves, 13 of whom survived at least a year.
Billy was a pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War.
Billy (stylised as BILLY) is a bookcase sold by the Swedish furniture company IKEA. It was developed in 1979 by the Swedish designer Gillis Lundgren and IKEA have sold 41 million of the bookcases worldwide as of 2009.
Billy, also known as Will and William, was an African-American slave charged with treason during the American Revolution. The case received attention because it asserted that because Billy was a slave, that he was not a citizen of Virginia and as such, could not commit treason.
"Billy" is a song with words by Joe Goodwin and music by James Kendis and Herman Paley, written in 1911.
The most successful version of the song was performed by Kathy Linden. It reached #7 on the Billboard pop chart in 1958. The song was featured on her 1958 album, That Certain Boy.
The song was features the Joe Leahy Orchestra.
The single ranked #90 on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1958.
Billy is a given name and a common nickname for William.
Usage examples of "billy".
By now everyone knew that Billy Ray had been killed by an alligator, a big one, and that it had to be hunted down and destroyed.
They had kept Billy Long as a manager until his untimely death, then quickly gave his job to the pudgy bartender, Leonard Wilbur.
Billy hit and Sam would throw batting practice with no one there but Billy and the scouts.
Alderson has a clear memory from earlier that spring of 1990, of Billy Beane taking batting practice.
But Billy, although not particularly well liked by the other workers, had not had a reputation as a brawler or a vicious man.
I got up and went to help Kennie repair the union, while Tom brewed a billy of tea over the fire.
He had found Billy nursing Eversofar in the shade of a stunted brigalow, while Bingong was away hunting for water.
Not a word had been said, but King knew by what was not spoken that Billy, the third Markland son, had gone for the Union.
Billy Blueblazes he will be called by his messmates while he remains afloat.
Then the mayor introduced the toast of vaudeville, that famous monologuist and comedian, the darling of the Irish, Billy Brady.
Jimmy, Derek, Deco, Billy, James and Dean, Outspan was in love with Imelda.
Billy Bob joined him, overcoatless, and pointed at an absurdly long white limousine at the curb.
At first they were very rigorous in their approach but it quickly became apparent that their live sound was going to be rather thin without multitracking and overdubs, so when the American organist Billy Preston, whom they knew from Hamburg, stopped by Apple on the first day of recording, he was recruited by George Harrison to fill out the sound.
She took another swallow of the drink, welcoming the warmth that exploded in the pit of her stomach and overwhelmed the heat of thoughts of Billy.
She leaned back against the seat and stared at Billy, suddenly overwhelmed by the daunting task ahead of them.