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A policeman's club
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nightstick
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context law enforcement English) A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security people, for use in self-defense. Often shortened to stick.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nightstick \nightstick\ n. A policeman's club. Syn: truncheon, billy, billy club, billystick.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also night-stick , 1887, from night + stick (n.). So called because it was carried on night patrols.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon , billy , billystick , billy club ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It looked like a nightstick now. ▪ Police responded with nightsticks and pepper spray, further inflaming the crowd. ▪ The city - it is the city that will have to heal them, with knifeblade and automobile, nightstick , gunshot. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
' Nightstick ' is a 1987 Canadian - American made for television action film which had theatrical release and later released to video and to theaters outside the United States. Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan , the film stars Bruce Fairbairn , Kerrie Keane ...
Usage examples of nightstick.
An underpaid sleuth with a cubby-hole and a nightstick and a remit to keep one eye on the shifty characters who walked in off the street and an even beadier eye on the dodgy ones who worked there.
Baker had really gone birdshit, pulling loose from the bailiff and two deputies and nearly getting to the prosecution table before he was quieted down with nightsticks.
Heavy recoilless pistols, nightsticks, gas and fragmentation bombs hung from their belts.
Vietnam war might still be going on, girls would still have closing hours, the fuzz still would be hauling students off to jail for smoking grass, and hitting them over the head with nightsticks for marching in the street.
In front of the shoulder-tall stage stood a row of black-uniformed Kampuskops, elbow-to-elbow, nightsticks thumping into their hands in time with the music, holsters thrust forward for a quick draw, visors lowered from their helmets to hide all but their mouths and chins.
They poked her with their nightsticks, like they did the drunks, and then one of them saw her blood on it, shining in the streetlights.
I had no choice but to keep walking past him as black-clad bodies jumped out of the vehicles and ran into the building, leaving the drivers standing outside, nightsticks in hand.
They were stoked up too, for this sweaty contact, liking their chances with fists and nightsticks, half-crouched and counting the beats.
This is where the down-and-outers hide from the rousting nightstick and the contemptuous stare.
Three pols in gray uniforms filled the doorway, with weapon tubes and nightsticks aimed at him.
Who at this unfocused hour of the morning could bear the synthesized corn of the title track from a movie about a famous Top 40 singer who witnesses a murder and after an hour and a half of harrowing contrivance ends up sucking the nightstick of the glamour-boy detective assigned to protect her?
Still, there was no small satisfaction in watching one of the torpedo boat commanders and his detachment move at double time across the cobblestones of West Street, sidearm and nightsticks at the ready, and plow into the burny-crazed, confused Dusters with such determination that what followed couldn’.
Pete whistled for squad cars as he broke into the edge of the crowd, swinging his nightstick.