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club
English
Etymology
From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- (“log, block”), from *gel- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?b, IPA(key): /kl?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
club (plural clubs)
- 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.
- (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:[1]
- He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:[1]
- A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
- first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
- 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- A black clover shape (?), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- A club sandwich.
- 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)
- Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
- 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
Synonyms
- (association of members): confraternity
- (weapon): cudgel
- (sports association): team
Hyponyms
- chess club
- sports club
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Tokelauan: kalapu
Translations
Verb
club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)
- (transitive) To hit with a club.
- He clubbed the poor dog.
- (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.
- (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
- (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne
- (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- to club the expense
- (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- to club exertions
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- 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.
- (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Derived terms
- clubbing
- go clubbing
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English club.
Noun
club m (plural clubs)
- club (association)
- (golf) club
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English club.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?p/
- Hyphenation: club
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)
- club, association
- (golf) club
Derived terms
- clubhuis
- damclub
- golfclub
- handbalclub
- schaakclub
- skiclub
- stamclub
- tennisclub
- voetbalclub
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English club.
Pronunciation
- (France) IPA(key): /klœb/, /klyb/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /kl?b/
Noun
club m (plural clubs)
- club (association)
- (golf) club
Synonyms
- (golf club): bâton (Quebec)
Derived terms
- bienvenue au club
Further reading
- “club” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English club.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klab/, /?kl?b/
Noun
club m (invariable)
- club (association)
- club (golf implement)
Middle English
Noun
club
- Alternative form of clubbe
Romanian
Etymology
From French club.
Noun
club n (plural cluburi)
- club
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English club.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klub/, [?klu??]
Noun
club m (plural clubs or clubes)
- club (association)
- Synonyms: asociación, cofradía, gremio
Derived terms
- club de fans
- club nocturno
Further reading
- “club” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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clobber
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kl?b.?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kl?b.?/
- Rhymes: -?b?(?)
- Hyphenation: clob?ber
Etymology 1
British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.
Verb
clobber (third-person singular simple present clobbers, present participle clobbering, simple past and past participle clobbered)
- (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
- 1954, Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, 1984, page 201,
- So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.
- 2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 3034,
- Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered. We also saw women being clobbered by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground.
- The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack […] .
- 1954, Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, 1984, page 201,
- (transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
- 1999, Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency, page 74,
- Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.
- 2004, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies, page 314,
- The
cp
command does one thing as it clobbers a file;mv
andln
do another.
- The
- 2007, Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security, unnumbered page,
- These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the
debug()
function for SexyWidgets clobbers the developer?sdebug()
function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently clobber the earlier function definition.
- These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the
- 1999, Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency, page 74,
Noun
clobber (uncountable)
- (slang) A thumping or beating.
- 2014, Philippa Ballantine, Weather Child
- He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]
- 2014, Philippa Ballantine, Weather Child
- A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
Translations
Etymology 2
British slang from 19th century.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
clobber (uncountable)
- (Australia, Britain, slang) Clothing; clothes.
- 1919, C. J. Dennis, Red Robin, in Jim of The Hills, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931:
- I was thinkin' of the widow while I gets me clobber on— / Like a feller will start thinkin' of the times that's past an' gone.
- 1919, C. J. Dennis, Red Robin, in Jim of The Hills, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931:
- (Britain, slang) Equipment.
Etymology 3
Noun
clobber (uncountable)
- A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clobber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- The Dinkum Dictionary
- “The Jargon File”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?[3], (Please provide a date or year)
Anagrams
- Cobbler, cobbler
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