as in cane
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
police officers fitted out with nightsticks and handcuffs
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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.
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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
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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
See All Example Sentences for nightstick
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“Nightstick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightstick. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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