Plural of clique

regular plural

The plural of clique is cliques.

Forms of clique

This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
In the South, too, due either to direct or indirect machinations by imperialism, there mushroomed many cliques and factions which fought against one another; in the provinces, small cliques and factions within big ones were also struggling against one another.1954, Tsjenn Po-ta [i.e., Chen Boda], chapter 2, in [anonymous], transl., Notes on Ten Years of Civil War (1927–1936), Beijing: Foreign...
The boys in their school also have cliques, the most talked about one being ‘Mat Reps’.2011, Viniti Vaish & Mardiana Roslan ,‘Crossing’ in Singapore, 323. From the entry mat rep
Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255. From the entry yeargroup
Ellison began to rattle off the list of cliques as he pointed to each table with his sandwich.2011, Madison Adler, The Glass Wall, Bento Box Books, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry World of Warcrafter

noun A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic such as lifestyle or social status, or common purpose; specifically one formed for disreputable purposes, or which purports to be an authority on a particular matter; a cabal.
noun A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
noun A group of related websites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

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