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Synonyms of club
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
- hit the prisoner with a club if he tries anything funny
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2
the meeting place of an organization
- the Elks gather at their club every Monday evening
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3
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest
- an alumni club
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- association,
- board,
- brotherhood,
- chamber,
- college,
- congress,
- consortium,
- council,
- fellowship,
- fraternity,
- guild
- (also gild),
- institute,
- institution,
- league,
- order,
- organization,
- society,
- sodality
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4
a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts)
- a weekly newspaper column devoted to current happenings on the local club scene
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- a-go-go,
- disco,
- discotheque
- (or discothéque)
- barroom,
- pub
- [chiefly British],
- public house
- [chiefly British],
- saloon,
- tavern
- clip joint
- [slang],
- dive,
- honky-tonk,
- key club,
- speakeasy
club
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of club (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members
- clubbed together to share their love of model rockets
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2
to strike repeatedly
- frustrated, the gardener clubbed the inoffensive weed into submission
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- bash,
- baste,
- bat,
- batter,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- birch,
- bludgeon,
- buffet,
- bung up,
- curry,
- do,
- drub,
- fib
- [British],
- flog,
- hammer,
- hide,
- lace,
- lambaste
- (or lambast),
- lash,
- lather,
- lick,
- maul,
- mess (up),
- paddle,
- pelt,
- pommel,
- pound,
- pummel,
- punch out,
- rough (up),
- slate,
- slog,
- switch,
- tan,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- thump,
- tromp,
- wallop,
- whale,
- whip,
- whop
- (or whap),
- whup,
- work over
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- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- beset,
- box,
- bust,
- chop,
- clobber,
- clout,
- crack,
- cudgel,
- cuff,
- descend (on or upon),
- hit,
- jump (on),
- knock,
- lam,
- lay on,
- paste,
- pounce (on or upon),
- punch,
- raid,
- rush,
- slam,
- slap,
- smack,
- smash,
- sock,
- spank,
- storm,
- swat,
- swipe,
- thwack,
- whack,
- wham,
- whomp
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The first known use of club was in the 13th century
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