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supper club

American  

noun

  1. a nightclub, especially a small, luxurious one.


supper club British  

noun

  1. (formerly) a small expensive nightclub

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of supper club

First recorded in 1920–25

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On Wednesday, she watched Sotheby’s sale over livestream from a supper club event at the art space Hastings Contemporary, where she’d been invited to speak about Freud.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

For more than 100 years, the restaurant has been serving the De Pere community with classic supper club fare.

From Salon Mar. 10, 2026

So Adams welcomed the opportunity to share some of his techniques and thoughts with McVay, even in a supper club.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2025

This all seemed like throat clearing to me, as did the complete reconfiguration of the auditorium itself, which is now arranged like a large supper club or a small stadium.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2024

This supper club will be a roomful of boys carrying chewed-up pencils in their pockets—they’re probably studying architecture, like Ollie is—and girls citing philosophers I’ve never heard of.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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