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nightstick

Noun

Meaning

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

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Auxiliary officers are armed with a nightstick, radio and handcuffs — but no firearm — and serve as supplementary enforcement patrolling housing developments, subways and houses of worship. Source: Internet

Lee rolled to the apron, and Damian Priest, elsewhere on the outside, had his retractable nightstick. Source: Internet

A trooper jabbed the butt of a nightstick toward Lewis and officers quickly pushed into the group. Source: Internet

Some in the crowd were hospitalized, One protester needed stitches to repair a knee broken by a nightstick; another lost two fingers in a car door. Source: Internet

The first nightstick came down on Lewis’s skull,” Remnick wrote in 2009. Source: Internet

Teal, p. 6. One participant who had been in the Stonewall during the raid recalled, "The police rushed us, and that's when I realized this is not a good thing to do, because they got me in the back with a nightstick." Source: Internet

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