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A club is a group of people who share an interest, whether it's playing chess or hiding out in a tree house together.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

Noun
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''t expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he p

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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"

Noun
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"

Noun
a building occupied by a club; "the clubhouse needed a new roof"

Noun
golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

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Noun
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division"

Noun
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"

Verb
strike with a club or a bludgeon

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gather and spend time together; "They always club together"

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unite with a common purpose; "The two men clubbed together"

n.
A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

n.
An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.

n.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

v. t.
To beat with a club.

v. t.
To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

v. t.
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

v. t.
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

v. i.
To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

v. i.
To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

v. i.
To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Club

Club , n. [CF. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbufir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.] 1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.

2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.] Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure. 3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.

They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.

He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club.

4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

They laid down the club.

We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.

Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. - Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

Club

Club , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clubbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing.] 1. To beat with a club. 2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

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.

3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions. 4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense. To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Club

Club , v. i. 1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.

2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat.

3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

To beat with a club.

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

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Usage Examples

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.