truncheon
truhn chin
- n a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead,.
- First, because of the military juntas who came to power in a bloody coup in 1962, and have been running the country with a truncheon ever since.
- She suffered a brain concussion and a cut when an officer delivered a truncheon blow to her head.