clubbing

[ kluhb-ing ]

nounInformal.
  1. the activity of going to nightclubs, especially to dance to popular music, drink, and socialize: Clubbing every night is expensive, not to mention tiring.

Origin of clubbing

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How to use clubbing in a sentence

  • Her kid sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska) is also hanging out in Detroit and convinces the oldsters to go out for a night of clubbing.

  • Dave Darrin was using the butt of the borrowed revolver in clubbing every strange head that got within reach of his arm.

  • He hunted the woman of his choice as he would hunt a beast, capturing and clubbing her into submission.

  • Instead of a brute clubbing a woman almost to death, we see the pleading lover, cautiously and earnestly wooing his bride.

  • Shagarach and Dr. Silsby stationed themselves each at one side, the former empty-handed, the latter clubbing his stout cane.

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  • Probably this degeneracy of coaches was due to the practice of travellers clubbing together to hire a post-chaise for the journey.

British Dictionary definitions for clubbing

clubbing

/ (ˈklʌbɪŋ) /


noun
  1. the activity of frequenting nightclubs and similar establishments

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