Definitions for posse

posse pos·se

Spelling: [pos-ee]
IPA: /ˈpɒs i/

Posse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in posse (eopss).

Definitions for posse

noun

  1. posse comitatus.
  2. a body or force armed with legal authority.
  3. Slang. a group of friends or associates:

adverb, adjective

  1. in possibility; potentially (contrasted with in esse).

Origin of posse

1575-85; Medieval Latin posse power, force, noun use of L infinitive: to be able, have power, equivalent to pot- (see potent1) + -se infinitive suffix

Examples for posse

Mali-ya-bwana and Simba set out with a posse of M'tela's men.

The posse would plunge ahead, and he could cut in toward Los Toros.

Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

He had felt it before, when he watched the posse retreat with the body of Bill Dozier.

Teaming up with notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the action hero is part of a ‘posse’ to protect schools in Phoenix.

Therefore, none of the posse would have a point-blank shot at him.

The crowd is an assortment of reporters, posse members, film students, and very skittish men sporting huge AOL headphones.

Before Escobar and his posse would surrender, the drug kingpin had a few stipulations.

He said some of the posse members will use their own marked cars, and others might use patrol cars if they're available.

The bullets of the posse had neither torn a tendon nor broken a bone.

Word Value for posse
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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