billy

Example Sentences

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We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

Alan Beck is counsel for the plaintiffs in both the California billy club case and the Hawaii butterfly knife case.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

The challenged California law bans the possession, manufacture, importation or sale of “any leaded cane, or any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a billy, blackjack, sandbag, sandclub, sap, or slungshot.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Mr. Roman in 2008 first publicized “the presence of two members of the New Black Panther Party — one carrying a billy club — outside of a Philadelphia polling site.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Our father makes a small fire to boil water in a billy tin for tea.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood