Antonyms for clubs
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : kluhb |
| Phonetic Transcription : klÊŒb |
Definition of clubs
Origin :- c.1200, "thick stick used as a weapon," from Old Norse klubba "cudgel" or a similar Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish klubba, Danish klubbe), assimilated from Proto-Germanic *klumbon, related to clump (n.). Old English words for this were sagol, cycgel. Specific sense of "bat used in games" is from mid-15c.
- The club suit in the deck of cards (1560s) bears the correct name (Spanish basto, Italian bastone), but the pattern adopted on English cards is the French trefoil. Cf. Danish klőver, Dutch klaver "a club at cards," literally "a clover."
- The social club (1660s) apparently evolved from this word from the verbal sense "gather in a club-like mass" (1620s), then, as a noun, "association of people" (1640s).
- We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern. [John Aubrey, 1659]Admission to membership of clubs is commonly by ballot. Clubs are now an important feature of social life in all large cities, many of them occupying large buildings containing reading-rooms, libraries, restaurants, etc. [Century Dictionary, 1902]I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. [Rufus T. Firefly]
- Club sandwich recorded by 1899, apparently as a type of sandwich served in clubs; club soda is 1877, originally a proprietary name.
- noun bat, stick
- noun social organization
- noun golfing tool
- verb hit hard with object
- The big fellows at the clubs always had a wad and peeled off bills like skin off an onion.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- They have societies and clubs and unlimited tea-fights where all the guests are girls.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- And it swelled into such a laugh that I saw the police feel for their clubs.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- Quickly their clubs rose and fell, and men dropped all around them.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- From jeers they passed to scuffles, in which missiles and clubs were the weapons.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
- Clubs: She did not have time for any, and thus could not be a suffragette.
- Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous
- Rare amongst them is the use of weapons of iron, but frequent that of clubs.
- Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
- I have no doubt that Horton has five or six hundred a year from his clubs alone.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- And all clubs, too, so long as my own are not interfered with.
- Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
- Mrs. Dott, are you interested in club matters; in women's clubs, I mean?
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Synonyms for clubs
- affiliation
- alliance
- association
- bash
- baste
- baton
- batter
- beat
- billy
- blackjack
- bludgeon
- brassie
- bunch
- business
- circle
- cleek
- clique
- clobber
- clout
- company
- conk buster
- convincer
- cosh
- crew
- cudgel
- driver
- faction
- fustigate
- gang
- guild
- hammer
- hangout
- hickory
- iron
- league
- lodge
- mace
- mallet
- mashie
- meeting
- midiron
- mob
- niblick
- nightstick
- order
- outfit
- persuader
- pommel
- pound
- pummel
- putter
- quarterstaff
- ring
- rosewood
- sap
- set
- shill
- shillelagh
- society
- sodality
- spoon
- staff
- stamping ground
- stick
- strike
- swatter
- truncheon
- union
- wedge
- whack
- wood
- works
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