mendicancy squad

English

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. - The Gift of the Magi - "O. Henry" - 1906
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