Posse Explained

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.

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

• Posse comitatus (disambiguation)
• Insane Clown Posse