What does club mean?

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What does club mean? - The Free Dictionary

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[n] a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together(each club played six home games with teams in its own division)[v] unite with a common purpose(The two men clubbed together)[n] a formal association of people with similar interests(he joined a golf club they formed a

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club - The Free Dictionary

[n] a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
(each club played six home games with teams in its own division)

[v] unite with a common purpose
(The two men clubbed together)

[n] a formal association of people with similar interests
(he joined a golf club they formed a small lunch society men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today)

[v] gather and spend time together
(They always club together)

[n] stout stick that is larger at one end
(he carried a club in self defense he felt as if he had been hit with a club)

[v] strike with a club or a bludgeon

[n] a building that is occupied by a social club
(the clubhouse needed a new roof)

[v] gather into a club-like mass
(club hair)

[n] golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

[n] a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it
(he led a small club clubs were trumps)

[n] a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
(don't expect a good meal at a cabaret the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night he played the drums at a jazz club)

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