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night stick

noun

  1. a special club carried by a policeman; billy.


night stick

noun

  1. a heavy baton or club carried by a policeman, prima British equivalenttruncheon
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Origin of night stick1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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As for the “up†portion of his night, Stick completed eight of his next 10 attempts after the pickoff in leading the Chargers to a field goal and touchdown on their next two possessions.

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"And it happens to people of color, particularly black males, multiple times in their lives as well. And I've had cops throw me against the wall and scrape my face on the ground and hit me in the back with a night stick and stuff like that -- and that happened when I was 11 years old."

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“Because we don’t see the night stick, because we don’t see the teargas, it doesn’t register for us as intimidation. But it is just as powerful, just as malignant, just as malevolent … the whole point is that blacks get hurt worse than whites,†said Anderson.

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That night, Stick and I had gone to our room after the meal, where we were supposed to do our homework.

“The other horses hate that he gets this stuff,†he said as he laid a blue police department blanket on Trooper’s back and then an English saddle equipped with an old-fashioned night stick.

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