posse
IPA: pˈɑsi
noun
- A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
- (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
- (US) A search party.
- (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
- (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
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Examples of "posse" in Sentences
- He played the game with his posse.
- He is the only who talks in the posse besides Dean.
- Earp was in the posse that brought down the murderer.
- The Indian Posse in Canada are the most dangerous gang.
- The three outlaws escape the posse, fleeing into the desert.
- The murdered victim was one of the founders of the Indian Posse.
- The posse captured the gang, but they later escaped from the jail.
- Strahinja gathers a posse of scoundrels and goes after the bandits.
- Are you going to unleash the copyediting posse on the article again
- The Posse has the ability to outsource their emotions to each other.