Definition of "billy club" [bil•ly club•billy club]

• A short stick or club, especially a police officer's club. (noun)

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• "“And when Confidential Magazine was getting ready to publish that article that alleged that I like well-endowed underage girls, and you took your billy club down to the office to reason with the editor, did I describe that as dangerous or big?”"
• "Buzz pulled the billy club from his waistband and walked through a grease-spattered kitchen-dinette to the bedroom."
• "They also got the picture — Sheriff Clark swinging his billy club at a helpless woman."