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 ''Posse mit Gesang'' ("farce with singing", plural: Possen) is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early examples are sometimes called 'Possenspil' or 'Possenspiel'. It is also som ...

, a form of German musical drama * Posse (band), an American indie rock band started in 2010 in Seattle

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"; see Micro.blog *

Jamaican posse Jamaican posses, often referred to simply as ''posses'', are a loose coalition of Jamaican gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, London, New York City and Toronto, first being involved in drugs and arms trafficking in the early 1980s. Jamaic ...

, a loose coalition of street gangs

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