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Pronunciation: /klʌb/

noun

  • 1a heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon: they beat him with a wooden club
  • short for golf club.
  • 2 (clubs) one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.
  • a card of such a suit.

verb (clubs, clubbing, clubbed)

[with object]
  • beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement: the islanders clubbed whales to death

Origin:

Middle English: from Old Norse clubba, variant of klumba; related to clump