clubbing
/ˈklʌbɪŋ/
clubbing is the present participle and gerund of club.
Noun
clubbing (countable and uncountable, plural clubbings)
- An instance of using a club.
- There was an outbreak of near-fatal clubbings in that area.
- Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
- A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
- The practice of frequenting nightclubs.
- We're going clubbing tonight.
- I don't like clubbing.
- The development of clubroot in a plant.
Meaning of club
Verb
club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)
- To hit with a club.
- He clubbed the poor dog.
- To score a victory over by a large margin.
- [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...2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport
- To join together to form a group.
- 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
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- To go to nightclubs.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne
Forms of clubbing
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Words formed from clubbing
Phrases with clubbing
Words that rhyme with clubbing
Questions about clubbing
- What does clubbing mean?
- Clubbing means an instance of using a club.
- What is clubbing the present participle and gerund of?
- Clubbing is the present participle and gerund of club.
- What part of speech is clubbing?
- Clubbing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce clubbing?
- Clubbing is pronounced /ˈklʌbɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of clubbing?
- The plural of clubbing is clubbings.
Words near clubbing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clubbing (page history and authors); club (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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