truncheon
noun
the club carried by a police officer; billy.
truncheons
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present tense formof truncheon (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
He said policemen whose job was to control the crowds in front of the emergency department only carried truncheons.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
"Unjustified arrests, unexplained delays, police cordons, masks and truncheons," nationalist lawmaker and former soccer executive Igor Lebedev commented on Twitter, describing last month's Russian Cup final in Samara.
From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019
Their wages shrivelled by inflation post-World War One, police officers in the Massachusetts city got organised and in 1919 downed their truncheons.
From BBC ● May 6, 2018
They sharpened and prepared spears, staves, pikes, brown bills, halberds, long hooks, lances, zagayes, quarterstaves, eelspears, partisans, troutstaves, clubs, battle-axes, maces, darts, dartlets, glaives, javelins, javelots, and truncheons.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
