clubnoun
uk/klʌb/us/klʌb/club noun (GROUP)
A2 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] an organization of people with a common purpose or interest, who meet regularly and take part in shared activities:
B1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a team:
[ C ] a building in which a club meets
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- The rugby club has a match next week against the Giants.
- The children's club meets every Thursday afternoon.
- You have to apply for membership of the sports club.
- Dave and Ian belong to the same chess club.
- I see (that) the social club is organizing a theatre trip next month.
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Organizations, Societies & clubs
- Assn
- Assoc
- association
- book club
- brotherhood
- commission
- committee
- empire
- FC
- feeder club
- foundation
- friendly society
- housing association
- insignia
- institute
- monolith
- secret society
- select committee
- society
- the old guard
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club noun (DANCE)
B1 [ C ] a place that people go to in order to dance and drink in the evening:
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Public entertainment venues
- amphitheatre
- auditorium
- bandstand
- bar
- boozer
- brewpub
- drive-in
- fleshpot
- flick
- free house
- gastropub
- honky-tonk
- nineteenth
- opera house
- palace
- picture
- playhouse
- pub
- public bar
- saloon
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club noun (GOLF)
[ C ] a long, thin stick used in golf to hit the ball:
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Golf
- a hole in one idiom
- birdie
- bunker
- chip
- drive
- fairway
- golf
- golf course
- hole
- iron
- match play
- mini-golf
- miniature golf
- par
- putt
- rough
- sand trap
- tee (sth) up
- tee off
- yip
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club noun (WEAPON)
[ C ] a heavy stick used as a weapon
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Hand weapons
- battleaxe
- bayonet
- blowgun
- blowpipe
- bludgeon
- boomerang
- catapult
- dirk
- flick knife
- harpoon
- hilt
- jackknife
- rapier
- sabre
- scabbard
- scimitar
- shanghai
- sheath
- sheath knife
- two-edged
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club noun (CARD)
one of the four suits in playing cards, represented by a symbol with three round leaves:
[ C ] a playing card from the suit of clubs:
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- stick
- strip poker
- suit
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Idiom(s)
clubverb [ T ]
uk/klʌb/us/klʌb/-bb-to beat a person or an animal, usually repeatedly, with a heavy stick or object:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- bunch
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- swing
- thump
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