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Posse

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Posse is a shortened form of posse comitatus, a group of people summoned to assist law enforcement. The term is also used colloquially to mean a group of friends or associates.

Posse may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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Other uses

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  • Posse (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
  • Posse (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Posse, Goiás, a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Goiás
  • Posse Foundation, a US nonprofit organization that identifies, recruits, and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams
  • POSSE project (Portable Open Source Security Elements), a software security initiative
  • POSSE, a social web and IndieWeb abbreviation for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere", a strategy for content producers.
  • Jamaican posse, a loose coalition of street gangs

See also

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