clubby
Americanadjective
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sociable, esp effusively so
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exclusive or cliquish
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Origin of clubby
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That segment of the show largely stripped out the guitars to focus on clubby techno and nasty slashes of synth noise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Romy Madley Croft became a sapphic-nightlife sovereign in 2023 with the clubby “Mid Air,” after Sim’s own minimalist, horror-streaked “Hideous Bastard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
The third track, “Ready, Steady, Go!,” is another clubby number, this time with a clean and rubbery bassline, and it too creates an expectation for a feeling of release that never arrives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Upon landing in a private airport, visitors get a luggage tag that some businessmen like to keep on their bags as a clubby accessory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The party addressed didn't look very clubby, but she was too polite to pull the cut direct.
From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring
It was an impressive way to launch his Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally era - which promises a much clubbier sound than his previous work.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
By making a looser, clubbier album, one which had the intensity of a full-on dance record and a less ruthless approach to melody; and which never sacrificed Robyn’s irresistible blend of sadness and euphoria.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2018
As the sunny, sporty feminists stake their rightful claim — holding press conferences, drumming up support, winning and winning some more — a rather dark, clubbier male world comes into view.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
I was part of a package show, supposed to perform 20 minutes a night in between two better, clubbier comedians in their 30s.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2014
In winter, too, Church will often put his bucketful of fish on the ground, so that the club may dine in a clubbier way.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
In the Senate, Fetterman will be joining the clubbiest of clubs, 100 of the nation’s ultimate insiders: millionaires, scions and king — or queen — makers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
All its younger partners had all gone to Yale, and most of them had been in Skull and Bones — it was the clubbiest of the clubby establishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2021
His twin brother and Latino friends wonder why a 20-year-old man born in Mexico decided to volunteer for one of the oldest, clubbiest small-town traditions — the American firehouse.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018
On a recent witching-hour quest for food, I walked toward Santiago’s clubbiest neighborhood, Bellavista, just as the bars officially closed.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2013
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