Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to club
Participle: clubbed
Gerund: clubbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | club |
| you | club |
| he;she;it | clubs |
| we | club |
| you | club |
| they | club |
Perfect
| I | have clubbed |
| you | have clubbed |
| he;she;it | has clubbed |
| we | have clubbed |
| you | have clubbed |
| they | have clubbed |
Past
| I | clubbed |
| you | clubbed |
| he;she;it | clubbed |
| we | clubbed |
| you | clubbed |
| they | clubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had clubbed |
| you | had clubbed |
| he;she;it | had clubbed |
| we | had clubbed |
| you | had clubbed |
| they | had clubbed |
Future
| I | will club |
| you | will club |
| he;she;it | will club |
| we | will club |
| you | will club |
| they | will club |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clubbed |
| you | will have clubbed |
| he;she;it | will have clubbed |
| we | will have clubbed |
| you | will have clubbed |
| they | will have clubbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | club |
| you | club |
| he;she;it | club |
| we | club |
| you | club |
| they | club |
Perfect
| I | have clubbed |
| you | have clubbed |
| he;she;it | have clubbed |
| we | have clubbed |
| you | have clubbed |
| they | have clubbed |
Imperfect
| I | clubbed |
| you | clubbed |
| he;she;it | clubbed |
| we | clubbed |
| you | clubbed |
| they | clubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had clubbed |
| you | had clubbed |
| he;she;it | had clubbed |
| we | had clubbed |
| you | had clubbed |
| they | had clubbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would club |
| you | would club |
| he;she;it | would club |
| we | would club |
| you | would club |
| they | would club |
Perfect
| I | would have clubbed |
| you | would have clubbed |
| he;she;it | would have clubbed |
| we | would have clubbed |
| you | would have clubbed |
| they | would have clubbed |
Imperative
| you | club |
| we | Let's club |
| you | club |
Verbs conjugated like 'club'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'club'
blub,
cub,
flub,
glub,
slub,
alum,
blab,
bleb,
blob,
blue,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1205, from O.N.
klubba "cudgel," from P.Gmc.
*klumbon; the sense "to associate" is first attested 1670, apparently for "form a mass like the thick end of a club." Specific sense of "bat used in games" is from c.1450. The
club at cards (1563) is the right name for the suit (It.
bastone), even though the pattern adopted is the Fr. trefoil.
Club sandwich first recorded 1903;
club soda is 1877, originally a proprietary name.
Club-foot is from 1538.
"I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." [Rufus T. Firefly]
2. Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”). See: English '
clump', German, old spelling '
Kolben'.
Verbs referencing "club"
Swedish
klubba, Dutch
clubben.
Sample Sentences
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He clubbed the poor dog.
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"We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them." [1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:]
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[Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for [Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent who clubbed [Novak] Djokovic in last year's final was simply overwhelmed despite the Parisian crowd attempting to inspire a comeback. [2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport:]
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Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time. [2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian:]
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Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream. [1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
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We went clubbing in Ibiza.
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When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
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In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night [1997, Sarah Penny, The whiteness of bones, page 4:]
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I was rarely there —I was clubbing at night, sleeping during the day, back and forth to L.A.—but I had more money than I knew what to do with. [2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival:]
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He had been clubbing until the early hours [2013, Fabrice Humbert, Sila's Fortune:]
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The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat. [1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne:]
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to club the expense
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To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. [1876, Major-General G. E. Voyle; Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S., A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition, London: William Clowes & Sons, page 80:]
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to club exertions
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For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:]
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You see a person, who, added to yourself, would make, you think, a glorious being, and you proceed to idealize accordingly; you stand on his head, and outtower the tallest; you club your brains with his, and are wiser than the wisest; you add the heat of your heart to his, and produce a very furnace of love. [1854, The Eclectic Review, page 147:]