# club

Pronunciation: say "KLUB" /klʌb/

## Noun

1. An organized body of members united by a shared interest or purpose, typically sports or recreation.
   - Simple: A group of people who join together to share an activity, like a sport or hobby.
   - _The tennis club elected a new president last month._
   - _Several alumni founded a book club that still meets decades later._
2. A nightclub: a place open late at night where people go to drink and dance, usually to recorded music, sometimes with live acts or shows.
   - Simple: A place where people go at night to dance, listen to music, and have drinks.
   - _After dinner, they went to a crowded club and danced until the lights came on._
   - _The waterfront club draws crowds for its weekend DJ sets._
3. In golf and some other ball games, the implement a player uses to strike the ball.
   - Simple: A long stick used to hit the ball in games like golf.
   - _The caddie handed her a club suited to the long approach._
   - _Each club in the bag is built for a different distance._
6. A heavy stick or similar object made for striking, whether as a weapon or as a toy.
   - Simple: A heavy stick used as a weapon to hit people or animals.
   - _Ancient warriors fought with clubs carved from hardwood._
   - _The watchman gripped his club as he heard footsteps in the alley._
5. A set of people regarded as sharing some common characteristic, often spoken of humorously.
   - Simple: A group of people who all share the same situation or trait.
   - _Anyone who has ever locked their keys in the car belongs to a very large club._
   - _He joined the club of parents who survive on three hours of sleep._
8. One of the four suits in a deck of playing cards, marked with a black clover-shaped symbol (♣), or a card of this suit.
   - Simple: A playing card with a black three-leaf shape on it, or that shape.
   - _Leading a high club forced out the opponent's trump._
   - _He discarded two low clubs early in the game._
9. A sandwich of several stacked layers, typically including meat, lettuce, tomato, and toasted bread.
   - Simple: A tall sandwich made with several layers of bread, meat, and other fillings.
   - _He cut the club into four triangles and ate the first one._
   - _The café's turkey club is stacked high with bacon and avocado._
11. A bottle-shaped piece of apparatus used in pairs during rhythmic gymnastics routines.
   - Simple: A bottle-shaped stick swung and tossed in rhythmic gymnastics, used in pairs.
   - _The gymnast tossed one club high and caught it behind her back._
   - _Each athlete performs with two matched clubs during the apparatus segment._

## Verb

7. To strike someone or something with a club.
   - Simple: To hit someone or something with a heavy stick.
   - _Hunters sometimes club their prey rather than shoot it._
   - _The mob clubbed the man before police arrived._
4. To go out to nightclubs for entertainment.
   - Simple: To go out to nightclubs to dance and have fun.
   - _Students often club on weekends during the semester._
   - _She loves clubbing with her friends after exams._
10. To defeat an opponent by a wide margin.
   - Simple: To beat another team or person by a very large amount.
   - _The champions clubbed their rivals in the final._
   - _Top seeds often club lower-ranked opponents early in the tournament._
12. To combine money or effort with other people, each giving a share, to pay for or achieve something together, as in 'we clubbed together to buy her a present'.
   - Simple: To join with others, each giving some money or help, to pay for or do something.
   - _The students club together to cover the cost of the bus._
   - _The three roommates clubbed together to pay for a new couch._
14. To turn a musket breech-upward so as to wield it as a bludgeon.
   - Simple: To flip a musket so the heavy end is up, using it to hit instead of shoot.
   - _Surrounded and unable to reload, he clubbed his musket and struck out._
   - _The infantry would club their muskets once the lines collided._

## Noun

13. A person's share of a common expense, or money paid into a shared fund, including membership dues. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Your share of money paid into a shared fund.

## Other meanings

- (verb) To come together with others to form a group.
- (verb) To gather or form into a mass shaped like a club.
- (noun) The middle slice of bread that separates the two layers of filling in a club sandwich.
- (noun) The propeller of an airplane.
- (verb) To throw troops into confusion, or let them fall into disorder.
- (verb) To drift in a current while the anchor trails along the bottom.

## Origin

Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba or klumba meaning "cudgel," from Proto-Germanic *klumpô. It is related to English clump and cloud, perhaps to Latin globus, and perhaps to German Kolben.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/club (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).