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Definition of Nightstick
1. Noun. A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
Definition of Nightstick
1. Noun. (law enforcement) A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security people, for use in self-defense. Often shortened to stick. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nightstick
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightstick
Literary usage of Nightstick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Police Brutality in Urban Brazil by James Cavallaro (1997)
"On Saturday, policeman Joaquim put me this way and beat me, he broke a nightstick
on my back, took another one, and kept beating me. ..."
2. Confessions at Any Cost: Police Torture in Russia by Diederik Lohman (1999)
"In America, you can very easily get [beaten] with a nightstick.333 At the
Presidential Human Rights Chamber's session on torture, ..."
3. O. Henry Biography by Charles Alphonso Smith (1916)
"... so far as the power he represents is concerned, though he rap the pavement
with his nightstick till the sound goes up to the furthermost stars. ..."
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