mendicancy squad

noun

Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.

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Meanings

nounmendicancy squad (plural mendicancy squads)

plural mendicancy squads

  1. USPolice who arrested beggars and homeless people.

    It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad.

    1906, O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
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