What is "billies"

Usage examples of "billies".

Eskimo, one of the old billies, plants his feet wide and shakes his head at me in challenge but the nannies all crowd around me.

Bypassing the elevator completely, the pack poured up the fire stairs at a speed of knots, leaving their billies and the pool cue on the floor of the parking facility along with the sword-cane.

Already I was becoming a string of adjectives in her head—a string of funny anecdotes she would retail to her chums, the Billies and Bobbies and Charlies.

Two of them hefted police-type billies, one bore a sawn-off pool cue and the foremost held an elegant-looking walking stick that Rupen was dead certain concealed a steel blade.

It was the people and the animals and the hostility, hostility that was in a league with the swamp billies and the alligators, the coons, the cottonmouths, the Negroes, the climate, the stinking mud and rotting swamp flowers.

Outside the Academy, policemen were wielding genuine billies which had no connection with carnival make-believe.