Definition of "truncheons" [truncheons]

• Plural form of truncheon. (noun)

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• "Palestinian children and adolescents can throw Molotov cocktails at Israeli police, occasionally killing, wounding, or maiming them, but those are "only kids" standing up courageously against their oppressors; to be repressed by police wielding those redoubtable Jewish truncheons, that is quite another matter, for Jews have to submit to special standards of conduct, unlike all others."
• "Popular costumes like police or army uniforms or maybe even doctor and nurse ensembles are perfected only with accessories such as truncheons, hand-cuffs or stethoscopes."
• "Hoping to avoid violence, Yeltsin sent police to surround the White House armed only with rubber truncheons and plastic shields."