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billies

  • plural
    of billy.
    billy
    noun
    a police officer's club or baton.

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Blindfolded by their helmets, billies more or less at the ready, they go through their maneuvers like a ruptured accordion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sweaty, swaying bodies surged across the square toward the Embassy, where tin-helmeted Egyptian police barred the way with billies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pair of young billies butted each other with their horns, but most of the time the animals were perfectly orderly.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

It's a snug bit house where some of the West Country billies forgather for a nicht at e'en.

From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown