club

noun

1. (countable)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.”

2. (countable)A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
3. (countable)A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
4. (countable)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. (archaic, countable)An 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. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
9. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

   “I've got only one club in my hand.”

10. (humorous)Any set of people with a shared characteristic.

    “You also hate Night Court? Join the club.”

    “Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.”

    “He also wanted to be only the second person to travel solo to at least that depth, the other being James Cameron, who in 2012 took an Australian-built sub into the Mariana Trench, reaching Challenger Deep, the ocean’s deepest point, touching down at close to 36,000 feet. “That’s a nice club to be a part of,” Rush says. Two weeks later, that club welcomed a new member, when a Texas businessman named Victor Vescovo reached 27,000 feet in his own experimental submersible.”

11. A club sandwich.

    “Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.”

12. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
13. (slang)The propeller of an aeroplane.

verb

1. (transitive)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. (intransitive)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. (intransitive, transitive)To combine into a club-shaped mass.

   “a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes”

5. (intransitive)To go to nightclubs.

   “We went clubbing in Ibiza.”

   “When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.”

   “In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night”

   “I was rarely there —I was clubbing at night, sleeping during the day, back and forth to L.A.—but I had more money than I knew what to do with.”

   “He had been clubbing until the early hours”

6. (intransitive)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. (transitive)To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

   “to club the expense”

8. To drift in a current with an anchor out.
9. To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

   “To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.”

10. (transitive)To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

    “to club exertions”

    “For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.”

    “You see a person, who, added to yourself, would make, you think, a glorious being, and you proceed to idealize accordingly; you stand on his head, and outtower the tallest; you club your brains with his, and are wiser than the wisest; you add the heat of your heart to his, and produce a very furnace of love.”

11. (transitive)To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.