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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nightstick
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.
▪ The police block us with their nightsticks.
▪ The string of blackshirts was re-deployed, four spotlights had them caught in a box of gauzy light, their nightsticks fisted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nightstick

nightstick \nightstick\ n. A policeman's club.

Syn: truncheon, billy, billy club, billystick.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nightstick

also night-stick, 1887, from night + stick (n.). So called because it was carried on night patrols.

Wiktionary
nightstick

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.

WordNet
nightstick

n. a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, billy, billystick, billy club]

Wikipedia
Nightstick (band)

Nightstick are a sludge metal band from Weymouth, Massachusetts, who are often compared to Black Sabbath or Monster Magnet.

The band was formed by ex- Siege drummer Rob Williams.

Nightstick are well known for their unique stage shows which feature a dancing clown called Padoinka. Padoinka the clown is widely considered to be the fourth member of the band and has featured heavily on the art work of all three full-length albums. The Padoinka persona has been adopted by several people due to heroin addiction.

Nightstick (film)

'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, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Vaughn, and John Vernon.

Under the working title of Cahoun, production began December 1986 shooting on locations in Toronto and New York.

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.