What is "nightsticks"

Usage examples of "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.