English Dictionary

posse

/ˈpɒ.si/

noun

A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. / (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

The posse gathered at the town square to search for the fugitive.

意味（1）

A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system. No aspect of schooling has been more severely criticized than reading instruction. The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.

意味（2）

(now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

Coordinate term: vigilante

意味（3）

(US) A search party.

意味（4）

(US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.

Jamaican posses can be traced back to the Jamaican neighborhoods, and posse names correspond to the names of each neighborhood in which the gangs operate.

意味（5）

(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.

But the few friends that I DO have are my “ride or die” chicks—my posse.