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
- Posse (1975 film), US Western film produced, directed and starring Kirk Douglas
- Posse (1993 film), US revisionist Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles
- "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)", a 2001 single by German band Scooter
- Posse cut, a type of Hip Hop song with four or more rappers, in which each verse is sung by a different person
- Posse mit Gesang, a form of German musical drama
- Posse (band), an American indie rock band started in 2010 in Seattle
- Young Posse, a South Korean girl group started in 2023.
- Posses e Magusto, one of the festivities of the Nicolinas
Other uses
- 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
Topics referred to by the same term
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