an association dedicated to a particular interest or activity

I belong to a photographic club

the club secretary

an organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport

a football club

a nightclub playing fashionable dance music

the club scene

combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose

friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present

go out to nightclubs

she enjoys going clubbing in Oxford

a heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon

they beat him with a wooden club

one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil

beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement

the islanders clubbed whales to death