billy club

1. 1.

   a short stout club used primarily by policemen

   Synonymstruncheonnightstickbatonbillybillystick

   Broaderclub

Questions about billy club

What does billy club mean?

billy club means "a short stout club used primarily by policemen".

What is another word for billy club?

Close synonyms include truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is billy club a common word?

billy club is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.