club
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See also: Club
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
club (plural clubs)
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:
- He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:
- A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 October 2022:
- The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- They laid down the Club.
- 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
- first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
- (card games) A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- I've got only one club in my hand.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- 2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
- He also wanted to be only the second person to travel solo to at least that depth, the other being James Cameron, who in 2012 took an Australian-built sub into the Mariana Trench, reaching Challenger Deep, the ocean’s deepest point, touching down at close to 36,000 feet. “That’s a nice club to be a part of,” Rush says. Two weeks later, that club welcomed a new member, when a Texas businessman named Victor Vescovo reached 27,000 feet in his own experimental submersible.
- You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
- Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.
- A club sandwich.
- 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia, page 123:
- Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- (World War I– World War II, military slang) The propeller of an aeroplane.[1]
Synonyms
- (association of members): confraternity
- (weapon): cudgel
- (sports association): team
- See also Thesaurus:stick
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- aero club
- aeroclub
- ballclub
- ball club
- ball-club
- balloon club
- Baltimore club
- beefsteak club
- benefit club
- billy club
- book club
- book sales club
- booster club
- bottle club
- bowling club
- boys' club
- boy's club
- breakfast club
- Brick City club
- camera club
- Christmas club
- Cinderella club
- clubable
- clubbable
- clubber
- clubbie
- clubbish
- clubbism
- clubbist
- club blues
- clubby
- club cell
- club chair
- clubdom
- club drug
- clubface
- clubfellow
- club fender
- clubfist
- clubfisted
- club-foot
- club foot
- clubfoot
- club-footed
- clubfooted
- clubful
- club fungus
- club-goer
- clubgoer
- clubgoing
- club good
- club gourd
- clubgrass
- club hair
- clubhand
- clubhaul
- club haul
- clubhead
- club-headed
- club-hop
- club-hopper
- club-hopping
- clubhouse
- club kid
- clubland
- club law
- clubless
- clublike
- clublike
- clubling
- clubmaker
- clubman
- clubmaster
- clubmate
- club-moss
- club moss
- club music
- clubnight
- club night
- club nine
- clubrat
- clubroom
- clubroot
- club rush
- clubrush
- club-rush
- club sandwich
- club soda
- clubstaurant
- club steak
- clubster
- club tape
- club topsail
- club-walking
- clubwear
- clubwoman
- clubzine
- cock-and-hen club
- country club
- cricket club
- cyberclub
- DDLC
- devil's club
- eating club
- e-club
- expansion club
- fan club
- farm club
- final club
- fitness club
- football club
- game club
- gentleman's club
- gentlemen's club
- glee club
- golden club
- golf-club
- golf club
- goose club
- gun club
- gunstock war club
- health club
- Hercules club
- Hercules' club
- homework club
- hybrid club
- Indian club
- interclub
- in the club
- in the pudding club
- intraclub
- Jersey club
- job club
- join the club
- kennel club
- key club
- lift club
- megaclub
- motorcycle club
- nightclub
- night club
- nonclub
- old boys' club
- on the club
- overclub
- play club
- rescue club
- rowing club
- service club
- sex club
- shepherd's club
- sick club
- six-month club
- social club
- strip club
- student club
- suicide club
- superclub
- supper club
- tennis club
- trench club
- trouble club
- underclub
- warclub
- war club
- warehouse club
- yacht club
- youth club
Descendants
Translations
association of members
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heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything
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hitting implement in certain ball games
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establishment that provides staged entertainment
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playing card symbol, ♣
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club sandwich — see club sandwich
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See also
Verb
club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)
- (transitive) To hit with a club.
- He clubbed the poor dog.
- To score a victory over by a large margin.
- 2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport:
- [Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for [Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent who clubbed [Novak] Djokovic in last year's final was simply overwhelmed despite the Parisian crowd attempting to inspire a comeback.
- 2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian:
- Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
- (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
- (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
- 2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival:
- I was rarely there —I was clubbing at night, sleeping during the day, back and forth to L.A.—but I had more money than I knew what to do with.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
- (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne:
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
- (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- to club the expense
- (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- 1876, Major-General G. E. Voyle, Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S., A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition, London: William Clowes & Sons, page 80:
- To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
- (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- to club exertions
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
- 1854, The Eclectic Review, page 147:
- You see a person, who, added to yourself, would make, you think, a glorious being, and you proceed to idealize accordingly; you stand on his head, and outtower the tallest; you club your brains with his, and are wiser than the wisest; you add the heat of your heart to his, and produce a very furnace of love.
- (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Derived terms
- club together
- clubbing
- go clubbing
Translations
to hit with a club
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to join together to form a group
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References
- Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech, volume 47, number 1/2, page 34
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