BILLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does billy mean? 

• BILLY (noun)
  The noun BILLY has 2 senses:

1. a short stout club used primarily by policemen

2. male goat

  Familiarity information: BILLY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short stout club used primarily by policemen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baton; billy; billy club; billystick; nightstick; truncheon

Hypernyms ("billy" is a kind of...):

club (stout stick that is larger at one end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Male goat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

billy; billy goat; he-goat

Hypernyms ("billy" is a kind of...):

caprine animal; goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)

 Context examples 

Billy Bones was the mate; Long John, he was quartermaster; and they asked him where the treasure was.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)