mendicancy squad

English

Noun

mendicancy squad (plural mendicancy squads)

  1. (US) Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.
    • 1906, O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi:
      It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad.
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