Noun: posse pó-see
- [archaic] A temporary police force
"The sheriff assembled a posse comitatus to search for the escaped prisoner";
- posse comitatus [archaic]
- [informal] A band of people associated temporarily in some activity
"they organized a posse to search for food";
- party, company
Derived forms: posses
Type of: band, Bill [Brit, informal], boys in blue [informal], circle, constabulary, fuzz [informal], law, lot, Old Bill [Brit, informal], police, police force, polis [UK, dialect, informal], set, the fuzz [informal]
Encyclopedia: Posse, Goiás