club
Meanings
noun
- A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- 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.
- Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- A club sandwich.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
verb
- To hit with a club.
- To score a victory over by a large margin.
- To join together to form a group.
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- To go to nightclubs.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
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Etymology
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”).
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