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billy
1[ bil-ee ]
noun
- Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- a heavy wooden stick used as a weapon; cudgel.
- Scot. Dialect. comrade.
- Also called ·· [bil, -ee-kan]. Australian. any container in which water may be carried and boiled over a campfire, ranging from a makeshift tin can to a special earthenware kettle; any pot or kettle in which tea is boiled over a campfire.
- Textiles. (in Great Britain) a roving machine.
Billy
2[ bil-ee ]
noun
- a first name, often a form of William.
billy
1/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- a wooden club esp a police officer's truncheon
billy
2/ ˈɪɪˌkæn; ˈɪɪ /
noun
- a metal can or pot for boiling water, etc, over a campfire
- ( as modifier )
billy-tea
- informal.to make tea
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of billy1
Origin of billy2
Example Sentences
“There was a handful of cops on the other side with billy clubs. And when they came over that fence, they met them with a couple whacks to the head and dragged them off.”
Then, police officers attacked protesters with billy clubs, dragging them out of Grant Park in a show of bloody force.
“They were praying when the billy clubs struck.”
He called California’s billy club ban “a very vague and nebulous law that has been abused for decades in California.”
Weapons such as billy clubs have been outlawed in some form or other in California since at least 1917, with exceptions for law enforcement officers and some state-licensed security guards, the Times said.
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