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mendicancy squad

mendicancy squad noun: police who arrested beggars and homeless people.

Noun

mendicancy squad (plural mendicancy squads)

  1. (US) Police 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

Forms of mendicancy squad

pluralmendicancy squads

Questions about mendicancy squad

What does mendicancy squad mean?
Mendicancy squad means police who arrested beggars and homeless people.
What part of speech is mendicancy squad?
Mendicancy squad is a noun.
What is the plural of mendicancy squad?
The plural of mendicancy squad is mendicancy squads.

Words near mendicancy squad in the dictionary

  1. Mendibles
  2. Mendibleses
  3. mendicament
  4. mendicancies
  5. mendicancy
  6. mendicancy squad
  7. mendicancy squads
  8. mendicant
  9. mendicant order
  10. mendicant orders
  11. mendicants

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