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Anonymous asked in SportsGolf · 3 weeks ago

Since it was bobbies who started carrying them, why are they called 'billy clubs' and not 'bobby clubs'?

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  • curtisports2
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Because burglars were calling their crowbars billy sticks or clubs before 1829, when Sir Robert Peel created London's first police department and police came to be known as 'Bobby's men' and then 'bobbies'. The term existed before police started using wooden truncheons and the name gravitated to them.

  • james
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    The better question is why are you such a moron ?

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