Club

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
  • noun. An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.
  • noun. Something resembling a club.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.
  • noun. A playing card with this figure.
  • noun. The suit of cards represented by this figure.
  • noun. A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly.
  • noun. The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.
  • noun. An athletic team or organization.
  • noun. A nightclub.
  • intransitive verb. To strike or beat with a club or similar implement.
  • intransitive verb. To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.
  • intransitive verb. To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.
  • intransitive verb. To contribute (money or resources) to a joint or common purpose.
  • intransitive verb. To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.
  • intransitive verb. To go to or frequent nightclubs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The expanded end of the tentacular arms in decacerous cephalopods.
  • To beat with a club.
  • To convert into a club; use as a club: as, to club a musket (by taking hold of the barrel and striking with the butt).
  • To unite, as the hair, in a solid mass or knot resembling a club.
  • Milit., to demoralize or confuse by a blunder in tactical manÅ“uvers: as, to club a battalion.
  • noun. A company of persons organized to meet for social intercourse, or for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, etc.
  • noun. A club-house.
  • noun. The united expenses of a company; joint charge; mess account.
  • noun. The contribution of an individual to a joint charge.
  • To combine or join together, as a number of individuals, for a common purpose; form a club: as, to club together to form a library.
  • Specifically, to contribute to a common fund; combine to raise money for a certain purpose.
  • To be united in producing a certain effect; combine into a whole.
  • To unite; add together by contribution; combine.
  • To divide into an average amount for each individual concerned: as, to club the expense of an entertainment.
  • Nautical, to drift down a current with an anchor dragging on the bottom.
  • noun. A stick or piece of wood suitable for being wielded in the hand as a weapon; a thick, heavy stick used as a weapon; a cudgel.
  • noun. In the games of golf and shinty, a staff with a crooked and heavy head for driving the ball. See golf-club, 1.
  • noun. A round solid mass; a clump; a knot.
  • noun. A playing-card that is marked with trefoils in the plural, the suit so marked.
  • noun. In entomology, a suddenly broadened outer portion of an antenna, formed by two, three, or more enlarged terminal joints, as in most weevils. See cut under clavate.
  • noun. In fungi of the family Clavariei, the claviform receptacle or one of its branches.
  • noun. A small spar to which the foot of a gaff-topsail or the clue of a staysail or jib is bent to make the sail set to the best advantage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To beat with a club.
  • transitive verb. To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
  • transitive verb. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
  • transitive verb. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment.
  • transitive verb. to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
  • intransitive verb. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
  • intransitive verb. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
  • intransitive verb. To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  • noun. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with 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.
  • Word Usage
    "But there's no question that the club is an acknowledged force on the pitch, having won three Premier League titles in the seven seasons since Mr. Abramovich's takeover."
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    clubbed  clubbing  
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    Cub  Hub  bub  chubb  cub  
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    Seat  a'  bar  bow  canoe  
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    clubbed  clubbing  clubs