billystick

Questions about billystick

What does billystick mean?

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

How many syllables are in billystick?

billystick has 3 syllables and divides as bil-ly-stick under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for billystick?

Close synonyms include truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billy club. 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 billystick a common word?

billystick 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.