clubbable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of clubbable
Example Sentences
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Kumar was an MP more likely to be found in the Commons library than the Stranger's Bar and his failure to be clubbable probably counted against him when it came to securing promotion.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021
Over the course of four series, this blurring of reality has coloured how people respond to them in real life: seeing them as the clubbable Brydon and the prickly Coogan.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020
I was obviously more clubbable than I had imagined.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2018
He already has a growing band of champions, led by Ben Wallace, the MP for Wyre and Preston North; yet he is less clubbable than he seems.
From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015
Johnson's talk had the quality of conversation, because, being a clubbable man, he enjoyed the give-and-take and the cut-and-thrust of the encounter.
From Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
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