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club

UK/kləb/ US/klʌb/ very common slang
noun (7) verb (3)

noun

1.

a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

  • “each club played six home games with teams in its own division”
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2.

a formal association of people with similar interests

  • “he joined a golf club”
  • “they formed a small lunch society”
  • “men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today”
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3.

stout stick that is larger at one end

  • “he carried a club in self defense”
  • “he felt as if he had been hit with a club”
4.

a building occupied by a club

  • “the clubhouse needed a new roof”
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5.

golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

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6.

a playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or more black trefoils on it)

  • “he led a small club”
  • “clubs were trumps”
7.

a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink

  • “don”
  • “;”
  • “;”
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verb

1.

unite with a common purpose

  • “The two men clubbed together”
2.

gather and spend time together

  • “They always club together”
3.

strike with a club or a bludgeon

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

Phrases

  • aero club
  • ball club
  • balloon club
  • Baltimore club
  • beefsteak club
  • benefit club
  • billy club
  • book club
  • club together
  • go clubbing

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