clubnoun/klʌb/

• 1

  A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

  • There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
  • The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
• 2

  golfhobbieslifestyleA heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

• 3

  A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

• 4

  An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

  • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
• 5

  archaicAn association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

  • He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
• 6

  A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

  • They laid down the Club.
  • 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
• 7

  An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

  • She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
• 8

  card-gamesgamesA black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

clubverb/klʌb/

• 1

  To hit with a club.

  • He clubbed the poor dog.
  • "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them."
• 2

  To score a victory over by a large margin.

  • [Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for [Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent who clubbed [Novak] Djokovic in last year's final was simply overwhelmed despite the Parisian crowd attempting to inspire a comeback.
  • Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
• 3

  To join together to form a group.

  • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
• 4

  To combine into a club-shaped mass.

  • a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
• 5

  To go to nightclubs.

  • We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  • When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
• 6

  To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.

  • The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
• 7

  To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

  • to club the expense
• 8

  nauticaltransportTo drift in a current with an anchor out.