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- noun Plural form of
truncheon .
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Examples
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Palestinian children and adolescents can throw Molotov cocktails at Israeli police, occasionally killing, wounding, or maiming them, but those are "only kids" standing up courageously against their oppressors; to be repressed by police wielding those redoubtable Jewish truncheons, that is quite another matter, for Jews have to submit to special standards of conduct, unlike all others.
Hodjas Blog 2009
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Popular costumes like police or army uniforms or maybe even doctor and nurse ensembles are perfected only with accessories such as truncheons, hand-cuffs or stethoscopes.
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Tear gas mingled with the stench of acrid smoke and stale beer as riot police, truncheons drawn, moved in to quell the violence, pushing crowds away from the burning cars.
Vancouver Riot PHOTOS: Frustration Over Canucks Loss Spills Into Downtown Streets 2011
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They got as far as the truncheons and bullets of a few "good ol' boys'" of Neshoba County, Mississippi and were beaten and shot to death along with James Chaney, a young black man of formidable courage who died with them.
Alice Walker: Why I'm joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 2011
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Hoping to avoid violence, Yeltsin sent police to surround the White House armed only with rubber truncheons and plastic shields.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Tear gas mingled with the stench of acrid smoke and stale beer as riot police, truncheons drawn, moved in to quell the violence, pushing crowds away from the burning cars.
Vancouver Riot PHOTOS: Frustration Over Canucks Loss Spills Into Downtown Streets 2011
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Either which way, there were fights, truncheons used, mounted branch called into action.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Odd, then, isn't it, that those who crush that freedom with guns and truncheons attract the cheering support of these erstwhile libertarians? posted by Dr. Dawg at 6: 50 PM
The mask slips again 2009
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Hoping to avoid violence, Yeltsin sent police to surround the White House armed only with rubber truncheons and plastic shields.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Odd, then, isn't it, that those who crush that freedom with guns and truncheons attract the cheering support of these erstwhile libertarians? posted by Dr. Dawg at 6: 50 PM
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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