club
n 1: a team of professional baseball players who play and travel
together; "each club played six home games with teams in
its own division" [syn: {baseball club}, {ball club}, {nine}]
2: 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" [syn: {society}, {guild}, {gild}, {lodge}, {order}]
3: 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"
4: a building occupied by a club; "the clubhouse needed a new
roof" [syn: {clubhouse}]
5: an implement used by a golfer to hit a golf ball [syn: {golfclub}]
6: a playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or
more black trefoils on it); "he led a small club"; "clubs
were trumps"
v 1: unite with a common purpose; "The two men clubbed together"
2: gather and spend time together; "They always club together"
3: strike with a club or a bludgeon [syn: {bludgeon}]