club

noun clubs

1. countable A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything. 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
2. countable An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
3. countable An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
4. countable An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. 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
5. archaic, countable The fees associated with belonging to such a club. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
6. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. They laid down the Club.
7. 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.
8. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
9. A playing card marked with such a symbol. I've got only one club in my hand.
10. humorous Any set of people with a shared characteristic. You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
11. A club sandwich. Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
12. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
13. The propeller of an aeroplane.
14. A set which is both closed and unbounded.

Similar: confraternity, cudgel, team

verb clubs · clubbing · clubbed

1. transitive To hit with a club. He clubbed the poor dog.
2. To score a victory over by a large margin. [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
3. intransitive To join together to form a group. Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
4. intransitive, transitive To combine into a club-shaped mass. a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
5. intransitive To go to nightclubs. We went clubbing in Ibiza.
6. intransitive To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense. The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
7. transitive To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment. to club the expense
8. To drift in a current with an anchor out.
9. 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.
10. transitive To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end. to club exertions
11. transitive To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.