Meanings
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1
noun
A group of people who meet because they share an interest or activity.
She joined a tennis club at university.
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2
noun
A place where people go to dance and listen to music at night.
They danced until late at the new club downtown.
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3
noun
A heavy stick used as a weapon.
The guard carried a wooden club.
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4
verb
To hit someone or something with a heavy stick.
The police were accused of clubbing the protesters.
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5
noun
A playing card of the suit marked with black three-leaf shapes.
He played the king of clubs.
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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”).
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