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Synonyms
Examples of nightstick in a Sentence
police officers fitted out with nightsticks and handcuffs
Recent Examples on the Web
Right Now Paul Buhle, then a history graduate student at UW-Madison and editor of New Left magazine Radical America, participated in the Dow sit-in and managed to avoid the blows of nightsticks.
—TIME, 10 May 2024
The interrogators used unauthorized dogs, humiliated inmates by forcing them to wear women's underwear, forced detainees into stress positions, and directed a military police sergeant to push and twist a nightstick into a detainee's arm, the investigations found.
—Matthew Barakat, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
An officer armed with a nightstick stood under him and whacked him hard on the foot.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
In the early 1800s, officers blew whistles and rapped their nightsticks to alert people to crimes.
—Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
Video from the protests shows police aggressively flogging protesters with nightsticks.
—Phil McCausland, NBC News, 1 May 2023
That nightstick is used to rape people, women and men.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2020
In the image of Trump rushing the police officers, the A.I. generator has fused the former president’s lower half with that of a cop, so Trump appears to be sporting a nightstick in a holster belt.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
The president and his fellow marchers climbed to the part of the bridge where, 58 years ago, peaceful protesters were beaten with nightsticks and tear gassed by a group of white police officers.
—Katie Rogers, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Nightstick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nightstick. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
nightstick
noun
night·stick
-ˌstik
: a police officer's club
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