club
noun
[ klʌb ]
• an association dedicated to a particular interest or activity.
• "I belong to a photographic club"
Similar:
society,
association,
organization,
institution,
group,
circle,
set,
clique,
coterie,
band,
body,
ring,
crew,
troupe,
affiliation,
alliance,
league,
union,
federation,
company,
coalition,
consortium,
combine,
guild,
lodge,
order,
fraternity,
brotherhood,
sorority,
fellowship,
sodality,
• an organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport.
• "a football club"
• a nightclub playing fashionable dance music.
• "the club scene"
Similar:
nightclub,
night spot,
disco,
discotheque,
cabaret club,
supper club,
bar,
hotspot,
nite club,
niterie,
club
verb
• combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose.
• "friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present"
Similar:
pool resources,
make a kitty,
join forces,
make a joint contribution,
divide/share costs,
team up,
join up,
band together,
come together,
get together,
pull together,
collaborate,
ally,
have a whip-round,
chip in,
• go out to nightclubs.
• "she enjoys going clubbing in Oxford"
Origin:
early 17th century (as a verb): formed obscurely from club2.
club
noun
• a heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon.
• "they beat him with a wooden club"
Similar:
cudgel,
truncheon,
bludgeon,
baton,
stick,
mace,
staff,
bat,
blackjack,
billy,
billy club,
nightstick,
shillelagh,
lathi,
danda,
kierie,
knobkerrie,
cosh,
life preserver,
• one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.
club
verb
• beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement.
• "the islanders clubbed whales to death"
Similar:
cudgel,
bludgeon,
bash,
beat/strike with a stick,
hit,
strike,
beat,
beat up,
batter,
belabour,
clout,
clobber,
cosh,
baste,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse clubba, variant of klumba ; related to clump.
in the club
• pregnant.
