posse

IPA: pˈɑsi

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.

Examples of "posse" in Sentences

Your poor husband ..... probably feels like a posse is after him.
But dude .. matching striped polos for you and your posse is way Montgomery Bell Academy.
Ariana caought the last train leaving that station and, frankly, her posse is no more readable than Kos.
Dressed as the werewolf Remus Lupin, Mr. Oosting says he feels very close to his posse from the Netherlands.
Wade's posse is one of dozens sent to top-tier universities each year by the New York-based Posse Foundation.
Oil will remain high until at least January 2009 when the Bush posse is removed from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Ruby
ROBERTS: You've got 160deputies trained to enforce immigration laws but you have what you call a posse of another 300,000 you can draw upon, about 500 of whom carry weapons.
The delusionary conduct of Mrs. Clinton and her posse is really disturbing, because it could lead to a third term of George Bush, and, if that were to happen, we would not have a country to which we could be patriotic.
_a posse ad esse non valet consequentia_, you can draw no inference from the possibility of a thing to its reality, but that, in the reverse order, _ab esse ad posse_, the inference is inevitable: if it is, or if it ever has been -- then of necessity it can be.