ALL meanings of posse
pos·se
P p - noun posse posse comitatus. 1
- noun posse a body or force armed with legal authority. 1
- noun posse Slang. a group of friends or associates: hanging out with your posse; a posse of drug dealers. 1
- noun posse group sent to arrest sb 1
- noun posse gang of friends 1
- countable noun posse A posse of people is a group of people with the same job or purpose. 0
- countable noun posse In former times, in the United States, a posse was a group of men who were brought together by the local law officer to help him chase and capture a criminal. 0
- noun posse the able-bodied men of a district assembled together and forming a group upon whom the sheriff may call for assistance in maintaining law and order 0
- noun posse possibility (esp in the phrase in posse) 0
- noun posse a Jamaican street gang in the US 0
- noun posse a group of friends or associates 0
- noun posse the body of men required, upon being summoned, to assist the sheriff in keeping the peace, pursuing felons, etc. 0
- noun posse a band of men, usually armed, so summoned 0
- noun posse any body of persons armed with legal authority 0
- noun posse in the Old West, a group assembled to hunt for criminal fugitives 0
- noun posse a search party 0
- noun posse a gang, esp. one engaged in selling drugs 0
- noun posse any group of people, as of a person's friends and associates 0