club-hoppingn.
/ˈklʌbhɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkləbˌ(h)ɑpɪŋ/ Originally U.S.
The action of moving from nightclub to nightclub, typically spending a short time in each.
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1949 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 8 Apr. 23/2 Cecily's plans..could well range from a dinner party for eight..to a long evening of night club hopping.]
1959 Pasadena (Calif.) Independent 23 Dec. 11/4 Unless you have a secret ‘in’ or private party brewing, you're facing a night of club hopping.
1978 N.Y. Times 30 June c22/4 It was one of the two clubs..visited on a recent night of London club-hopping.
1997 G. T. Sewall Eighties p. xix In centers of fashion,..sexual ambiguity, club-hopping, and studied nihilism were of the moment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
club-hoppingadj.
/ˈklʌbhɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkləbˌ(h)ɑpɪŋ/ Originally U.S.
Of or relating to club-hopping; that club-hops.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [adjective]
club-hoppinga1982
a1982 L. Bangs Mainlines, Blood Feasts & Bad Taste (2003) 377 ‘I Love the Nightlife’..is not..just another cheerlead to empty solipsistic club-hopping hedonism.
1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 22 Oct. j3 Two of Britain's brightest talents and club-hopping party boys.
1994 Face Oct. 31/1 His club-hopping drug binges..did little to quell the comparison.
2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 22 The Versace-sleek, club-hopping young woman she's become.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.1959adj.a1982