club
verb/klʌb/
/klʌb/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they club | /klʌb/ /klʌb/ |
| he / she / it clubs | /klʌbz/ /klʌbz/ |
| past simple clubbed | /klʌbd/ /klʌbd/ |
| past participle clubbed | /klʌbd/ /klʌbd/ |
| -ing form clubbing | /ˈklʌbɪŋ/ /ˈklʌbɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] club somebody/something to hit a person or an animal with a heavy stick or similar object
- The victim was clubbed to death with a baseball bat.
- [intransitive] go clubbing(informal) to spend time dancing and drinking in nightclubsMore Like This Consonant-doubling verbsConsonant-doubling verbs
Word Originverb sense 2 early 17th cent. (as a verb): formed obscurely from club in the sense to hit someone with a stick or heavy object. verb sense 1 Middle English: from Old Norse clubba, variant of klumba; related to clump.
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