club

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   stout stick that is larger at one end

   I carried a club in self defense.

2. 2
   noun

   a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it

   I led a small club.

3. 3
   noun

   a building that is occupied by a social club

   the clubhouse needed a new roof

4. 4
   noun

   a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

   each club played six home games with teams in its own division

5. 5
   noun

   a formal association of people with similar interests

   I joined a golf club.

6. 6
   verb

   to gather into a club-like mass

   club hair

7. 7
   verb

   to strike with a club or a bludgeon

   The police clubbed the protesters.

8. 8
   verb

   to gather and spend time together

   They always club together.

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”).