club
/klʌb/ noun, verb
Forms clubs clubbing clubbed
- noun (countable) A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- noun (countable, golf) An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- noun (countable, rhythmic gymnastics) An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
- noun (countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- noun (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
- noun A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- noun 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.”
- noun (card games) A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- verb (transitive) To hit with a club. “He clubbed the poor dog.”
- verb To score a victory over by a large margin.
- verb (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
- verb (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- verb (intransitive) To go to nightclubs. “We went clubbing in Ibiza.”
- verb (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- verb (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- verb (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Synonyms
confraternity cudgel team baseball club ball club nine social club society guild gild lodge order clubhouse golf club golf-club cabaret nightclub night club nightspot bludgeon
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
- noun Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
- verb To beat with a club.
- verb To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
Etymology [CF. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbuf a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “club”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details