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clubbable

adjective
club·​ba·​ble | \ ˈklə-bə-bəl How to pronounce clubbable (audio) \
variants: or less commonly clubable

Definition of clubbable

: sociable
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Other Words from clubbable

clubbability \ ˌklə-​bə-​ˈbi-​lə-​tē How to pronounce clubbability (audio) \ noun

Examples of clubbable in a Sentence

a frequenter of coffeehouses, Samuel Johnson has been called the most clubbable man in English literature

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 Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, clubbable figures who slip between academia and the upper reaches of journalism. — New York Times, "A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture," 26 May 2018

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First Known Use of clubbable

1783, in the meaning defined above

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Dictionary Entries near clubbable

clt

CLU

club

clubbable

club bag

clubbed

clubber

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The first known use of clubbable was in 1783

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