What is "billy clubs"

Usage examples of "billy clubs".

Swinging billy clubs, no Black Maria pulled up to the edge of the common.

Then blue uniforms surrounded him and billy clubs beat him to the ground and he was pummeled, lifted, pummeled, lifted, dumped and kicked at.

Laggards were thumped on the shoulders with billy clubs and told to get moving.

They were armed with billy clubs, and evidently supposed a gesture of force would cow us.

He'd never recovered from the beating the state troopers had given him on Mount Nazarene, fists, feet, billy clubs, resisting arrest was the charge, the provocation, he'd tasted his own death, black bile at the back of his mouth.

In his slight physique and nervousness, he stood out as a freak in a room populated by large men armed with guns and billy clubs.

He watches the descent of the billy clubs, the fumbling of the boy who covers his head and his chitin embellishments.

There had been another bus with bars over the windows waiting for them along with three Marines carrying pistols in white web gear and three-foot-long billy clubs they kept slapping in the palms of their hands.

Actual police uniforms, super-riot helmets, persuaders chemical mace, a knuckle sap, which is a glove with powdered lead, billy clubs, secret holsters, a three-in-one mob stick that spits Mace, emits an electric shock and allows you to club to death a charging rhinoceros.

Every so often, though, someone would have a wild hair up his ass and then it was constables with billy clubs at the very least, and the likes of that militia guy ordering a saber-charge at worst.