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Definition of "truncheon" [trun•cheon]

  • A short stick carried by police; a billy club. (noun)
  • A staff carried as a symbol of office or authority; a baton. (noun)
  • Obsolete A heavy club; a cudgel. (noun)
  • Obsolete A thick cutting from a plant, as for grafting. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "truncheon" in a sentence
  • "The lead filled truncheon is useful but most of us do not have that."
  • "The Freudian truncheon is brandished almost to absurdity when Pyramidhead traps Rose and Cybil in an elevator and begins stabbing his really long blade between the elevator doors, trying to run them through."
  • "More like President Kruger than Prince Albert – that's the best I can do for him; and I see him on a chair, in a black frock-coat, not so very high up either; I can manage a cloud or two for him to sit on; and then his hand trailing in the clouds holds a rod, a truncheon is it?"