truncheon

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Oh ye who haft not felt the truncheon or the tear gas.

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a short stout club used primarily by policemen

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noun

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for truncheon.

noun

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

See also: nightstick, baton, billy, billystick

Example sentences

Oh ye who haft not felt the truncheon or the tear gas.

Children working with "guards" ready to beat them with a truncheon.

Like, it makes you tougher, or it makes you happier on the days when you're not getting hit with a truncheon.

We should ask that before going to the "If its documented its the user's fault" truncheon.

My one director had a scar on the back of his head when some cop on a horse cracked it open with a truncheon.

>Well, now we know what's up...People who have never seen the wrong end of a police truncheon or gas canister are so cute.

Shame is a social truncheon, and in civil discussion we don't pull weapons on one another.

Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Because \n while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, \n words will always retain their power.

Caption reads: "A suffragette defends herself from a policeman's truncheon".

Robots and AI deployed by an oligarch class are just the newest incarnation of a truncheon waved in the face of the engineers who enable them.

", but a pissed off Latina mother running at you waving her sandal in the air like a medieval warrior swinging a truncheon is definitely an "Oh shit" moment.

I remember a neighbour recounting how, when he was found publicly drunk, the police patrol put him on the trunk of the car and struck his liver and kidneys with a truncheon to teach him a "lesson".United States, Canada and England are blessed, historically.

If people were hit on the heads with truncheons once a month, and no one could do anything about it, pretty soon there'd be all sorts of philosophers, pretending to be wise as you put it, who found all sorts of amazing benefits to being hit on the head with a truncheon once a month.

If not, then what?If you don't resist, you hardly have "stood up to the bullies".If you resist and lose--and remember, resisting can be anything as simple as bleeding on the officer's uniform when they decide to truncheon you--you will then be rewarded with the slow grinding gears of American "justice".