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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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"Club" Quotes from Famous Books

... wardrobe and sideboard. Around this simple but satisfying piece of furniture the three transient tenants of the dugout had just played a game of dummy bridge, and now sat smoking and bickering as peacefully as if they were in a college club-room in America. The night on the front was what the French call "relativement calme." Sporadic explosions above punctuated but did not interrupt the debate, which eddied about the high theme of Education—with a capital "E"—and the particular point ...

— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke

... you for double fare," persisted Cashel. "I have business up in Finchley; and your place is right in any way there. Upon my soul I have," he added, suspecting that she doubted him. "I go every Tuesday evening to the St. John's Wood Cestus Club." ...

— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw

... bull: they seemed in the act of combat, and possibly might represent the arms of Bearn and Ossau, though I confess I look upon them as of very early date—perhaps the work of the Gauls or Goths, selon moi; another enclosed a Sagittarius and a dog; another, an animal like a wolf, holding a club; another, an ape: the rest are too much worn to enable an antiquarian to decide what they were; but the whole offered a very singular and interesting problem, which we found it impossible to solve: the medallions are on stones which have evidently belonged to some other building, and been thus ...

— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello

... second the flood of ape-men had burst in all its fury over him. Crashing, thundering shots were dinning in his ears, animal death screams and the Valkyrie battle cries of the girls filled the temple. He could not tell how many of the apes were fighting him. As a cave-man's club whizzed past his head, he drove his knife once, and yanked it dripping from hairy, yielding flesh to plunge it again. A sudden side-step carried him away from another assailant. He dropped the knife to snatch the gigantic club of one ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... says. He has battered his brain against his creed till he believes it. He has accomplishments too, the more effective because they are mixed. He is at once a student of mysticism, and a citizen of the world. He brings to the club sofa distinct visions of old creeds, intense images of strange thoughts: he takes to the bookish student tidings of wild Bohemia, and little traces of the demi-monde. He puts down what is good for the naughty and what is naughty for the good. ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

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