Definition of Club

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Definition of Club

Club

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

To beat with a club.

To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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Club Quotations

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Groucho Marx

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma Bombeck

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
Keith Richards

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Club Translations

club in Afrikaans is klub
club in Finnish is kerho
club in French is club, mess
club in Italian is casino, bastonare, unione
club in Latin is stipes
club in Portuguese is clube
club in Spanish is garrote, circulo, apalear
club in Swedish is klubba, klubb

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