clubbing

/ˈklʌbɪŋ/

verb

  1. 1

    To hit with a club.

    He clubbed the poor dog.
  2. 2

    To join together to form a group.

  3. 3

    To combine into a club-shaped mass.

    a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  4. 4

    To go to nightclubs.

    We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  5. 5

    To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.

  6. 6

    To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

    to club the expense
  7. 7

    To drift in a current with an anchor out.

  8. 8

    To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

  9. 9

    To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

    to club exertions
  10. 10

    To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of using a club.

    There was an outbreak of near-fatal clubbings in that area.
  2. 2

    A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.

  3. 3

    The practice of frequenting nightclubs.

    I don't like clubbing.
  4. 4

    The development of clubroot in a plant.

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