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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

... but as yet their prowess was limited to drunken brawls and faction-fights; to upsetting old women at their work, levying blackmail from quiet chapmen on the high road, or bringing back in triumph, sword in hand and club on shoulder, their leader Hereward from some duel which his insolence ...

— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... a great gentleman, and he turned up his nose at that rabble rout. At the battle of Grandson, sire, he cried: 'Men of the cannon! Fire on the villains!' and he swore by Saint-George. But Advoyer Scharnachtal hurled himself on the handsome duke with his battle-club and his people, and when the glittering Burgundian army came in contact with these peasants in bull hides, it flew in pieces like a pane of glass at the blow of a pebble. Many lords were then slain by low-born knaves; and Monsieur de Chateau-Guyon, the greatest seigneur in Burgundy, was found dead, ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... suffering, and physical relief was instant. As the musician proceeded the internal disorder yielded gradually to the external and finally passed away entirely, leaving him so far from prostrated that by one A.M. he was out of bed and actually girding himself with a shotgun and an Indian Club to go upstairs for a physical ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various

... inevitable, I suppose," Gertrude wrote. "I expected it. I was almost certain that Mother would want to live in Scarford. Mrs. Black has been telling her all summer about society and club life and what she calls 'woman's opportunity,' and Mother has come to believe that Scarford is Paradise. You will have to go, I think, Daddy dear. Perhaps it is just as well. Mother won't be satisfied until she has tried it, and perhaps, after she has tried it, she ...

— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln

... trunk of an oak tree. His mouth was as large as a cave, and from it and his nostrils came forth fire and flame like that from the mountain of Vesuvius. Although his huge eyes were closed, flashes of lightning seemed to shoot from beneath the lids. At his side was an iron club as large as a steeple. About him stood trembling old women ...

— King Arthur and His Knights • Maude L. Radford

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