clubbing
/ˈklʌbɪŋ/
verb
- 1
To hit with a club.
“He clubbed the poor dog.”
- 2
To join together to form a group.
- 3
To combine into a club-shaped mass.
“a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes”
- 4
To go to nightclubs.
“We went clubbing in Ibiza.”
- 5
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- 6
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
“to club the expense”
- 7
To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- 8
To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- 9
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
“to club exertions”
- 10
To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
noun
- 1
An instance of using a club.
“There was an outbreak of near-fatal clubbings in that area.”
- 2
A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
- 3
The practice of frequenting nightclubs.
“I don't like clubbing.”
- 4
The development of clubroot in a plant.
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