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club

noun · verb US /klʌb/

a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,683 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,825 times across 175,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together also: baseball club, ball club, nine each club played six home games with teams in its own division
  2. a formal association of people with similar interests also: social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order he joined a golf clubthey formed a small lunch society
  3. stout stick that is larger at one end he carried a club in self defensehe felt as if he had been hit with a club
  4. a building that is occupied by a social club also: clubhouse the clubhouse needed a new roof
  5. golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball also: golf club, golf-club, golfclub
  6. a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it he led a small clubclubs were trumps

verb

  1. unite with a common purpose The two men clubbed together

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

club in real books

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  • He bears his rank upon his visiting-cards, and frequents a military Club.

    Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1

  • The Negro was unruly, and Vance was forced to use his club.

    The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1

  • A gift of music, which bubbled without effort, had put him on the Glee Club.

    The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1

  • But king o’ the club, the gayest golden spark, Sailor o’ sailors, what sailor do I mark?

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • She was the daughter of a dissolute, evil-tempered artist whom I had met at a Bohemian club.

    The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1

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