mendicancy squad

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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