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night·stick
naIt stIk
也称 night-stick,指的是“警察或守卫的警棍”,始见于1880年,由 night 和 stick(n.)组成。因为它是在夜间巡逻时携带的,所以被称为“夜棍”。
The first known use of nightstick was in 1887
nimbostratusnoun
a low dark gray layer of cloud that usually produces rain or snow
nimbleadjective
quick and light in motion : agile
a nimble dancer
quick in understanding and learning : clever
a nimble mind
nimbleadjective
quick and light in motion : agile
a nimble dancer
quick in understanding and learning : clever
a nimble mind
nimbleadjective
quick and light in motion : agile
a nimble dancer
quick in understanding and learning : clever
a nimble mind
nimbusnoun
a shining cloud about a god or goddess when on earth
an indication (as a circle) of radiant light about the head of a drawn or sculptured god or saint
a rain cloud
nilnoun
nothing at all : zero
nighttimenoun
the time from dusk to dawn
nightsticknoun
a police officer's club
1 That same night, every cop in the station went to the bar with nightsticks and reduced them to a “smudge on the floor.”
2 “One report said those troops were armed with rifles, nightsticks, and bayonets. Did you see any of that, Melba?”
3 As Battle explained: “I gradually but regrettably came to believe, along with the other officers, that there was as much law at the end of a nightstick as there was on the statute books.”
4 It was a sound exactly recalling the guards in prison running their nightsticks against the bars.
5 The aesthetic nightstick in that opening scene is the song that starts to play when the cowering heroine accidentally bumps into a boom box and clicks the power button: Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces."
6 “Shut up!” one of the officers said, hitting the migrant with a nightstick several times.
7 Lourdes grips her nightstick with one hand and pulls on her flashlight with the other.
8 The most common type of abuse was electrical shocking and beating with a plastic or rubber nightstick, he said.
9 There is some shoving, and finally they force people out of the way, using their nightsticks as blocking bars.
10 Oh, and a responding officer who has the quote-worthy line: "Look, I don't know a nutcracker from my nightstick, but I know danger when I see it."
11 Three police officers caught up to her, grabbed her hair, kicked her, and beat her with their nightsticks.
12 He was holding on to the gun and nightstick on his belt, which made him look like he was running with his hands on his hips.
13 His hand rested against the nightstick at his belt.
14 The cops took turns striking Bucky with their nightsticks, fists, and feet.
15 Finally the tall cop brought his nightstick down hard against Bucky’s temple.
16 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.
17 No matter who tried to put me in one: schoolmarms with their rulers, cops with their nightsticks.
18 And while the show still connected with the force of a nightstick to the skull, there was a lingering sense of unease about the group.
19 One such protester, Erin Wenzel, claims she was following police instructions on Aug. 14, 2020, when an officer “ran at her and violently slammed into her with a nightstick.”
20 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.