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mendicancy squads

mendicancy squads is the plural of mendicancy squad.

Meaning of mendicancy squad

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

Questions about mendicancy squads

What is mendicancy squads the plural of?
Mendicancy squads is the plural of mendicancy squad.

Words near mendicancy squads in the dictionary

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

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