Billy
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,702 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,650 times across 155,552 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen also: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billystick, billy club
- male goat also: billy goat, he-goat
Billy in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Billy had slipped into the landscape unseen.
The City of Fire · Grace Livingston Hill · Chapter 1
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Then he remembered that Unc' Billy Possum's hollow tree was not far away.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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She turned away abruptly, and looked toward the corner where Billy slept on a pallet.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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So Billy went up to the main-topgallant mast, And down he fell on his bended knee.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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Billy Idol (ED. he released in 1993 the album "Cyberpunk") has turned it into something very silly.
William Gibson Interviewed · Giuseppe Salza · Chapter 1