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Club

noun

1.

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together. Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, nine.

2.

A formal association of people with similar interests. Synonyms: gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society. "They formed a small lunch society" , "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

3.

Stout stick that is larger at one end. "He felt as if he had been hit with a club"

4.

A building that is occupied by a social club. Synonym: clubhouse.

5.

Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. Synonyms: golf-club, golf club.

6.

A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it. "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. Synonyms: cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot. "The gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night" , "He played the drums at a jazz club"

verb

(past & past part. clubbed; pres. part. clubbing)

1.

Unite with a common purpose.

2.

Gather and spend time together.

3.

Strike with a club or a bludgeon. Synonym: bludgeon.

4.

Gather into a club-like mass.

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— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... "I established my Allotment-club, and my pig-clubs, and those little Concerts by the ladies of my own family, of which we have the last of the season this evening. They are a great success, for the people here are amazingly fond of music. But there is the early dinner-bell, and I have no need to talk ...

— Contributions to All The Year Round • Charles Dickens

... to still harder; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silverend, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the hands of the pitiless constable, joined the procession, and placing herself immediately behind the latter, seized him by his capillary club, and pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not forbear to inform you how the beadle thrashed ...

— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... resentment. When once resentment is roused, it will expend its force on anything that turns up handy, as the man who has quarrelled with his wife about a question of a bonnet, will kick his dog for trying to follow him to the club as he leaves her. ...

— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen

... sort of club I wanted. You see I had him by the shoulders and I could swing his heels free and easy like. Wal, I used him that way. For the next ten or fifteen minutes the only music in that place was the panting of Pete and the crash and smash of bottles. ...

— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

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