(n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
(n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
(n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
(n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
(v. t.) To beat with a club.
(v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
(v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
(v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
(v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
(v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
(v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(4) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(5) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(6) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(7) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(8) If they end up going to another club that is difficult to take.
(9) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(10) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(11) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(12) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(13) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
(14) In the discussion, some of the theories of the pathogenesis of clubbing are reviewed, together with previous reports of clubbing in gastro-oesophageal disorders.
(15) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(16) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
(17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(18) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(19) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(20) Asked whether the club would be in new hands by tonight, he said: "There is a board meeting this evening to determine whether or not that is the case."
Clubhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house occupied by a club.
Example Sentences:
(1) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(2) A giant screen had been erected beside the clubhouse of the Kyadondo rugby club.
(3) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(4) In the clubhouse, set amid towering pines, there were corridors as wide as rooms, and rooms the size of basketball courts.
(5) Morsi’s supporters had camped out at the gates of the Republican Guard clubhouse, where they believed he was being held, to protest his removal.
(6) However, it already looks that both Cruz and Peralta would be welcomed back into the clubhouses in Texas and Detroit should they make the playoffs.
(7) In it, Wilson wrote: You have to admit the median or average guy in a baseball clubhouse does drive an SUV, drinks beer, golfs, likes college sports, chews or dips tobacco and is relatively a douchebag.
(8) He also received a green sign with white characters like those on the Green Monster scoreboard saying “Re2pect.” A video was shown of Jeter being doused in the Yankees clubhouse as part of the “Ice Bucket Challenge”, which was inspired by former Boston College baseball captain Pete Frates to raise awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
(9) Sabnavis’s apartment complex has gardens, a clubhouse and a pool, but there’s nothing she’d like more than to take her daughter to that hidden waterfront.
(10) The collapse led to immediate changes: the team let go of manager Terry Francona, general manager Theo Epstein found things so bad that he actually thought it would be more sunny to work for the Chicago Cubs and stories emerged that put much of the blame on a toxic clubhouse culture which, horror of horrors, featured players like Beckett and Lackey eating fried chicken in the clubhouse .
(11) He never really went in for the clubhouse camaraderie, preferring a book to boozing and, in the end, actors to sportsmen.
(12) In striking contrast to the £200m Trump claims to have invested in lavishly upgrading the Turnberry course and hotel only two years after buying it, he has spent only £38.5m so far in Aberdeenshire, building an 18-hole course, a single-storey clubhouse and converting the Menie estate’s manor house into a 19-bedroom boutique hotel.
(13) And when even the natural party of golf club bores opens the clubhouse to the ladies like this, it means the Conservatives have a woman problem all right, but not necessarily – or only – the one you think.
(14) Fresh from a workout, CJ Wilson trudges through the dimly lit Los Angeles Angels clubhouse in camo stretch pants and a hoodie, looking nothing like the well-coiffed man in the Head & Shoulders commercials .
(15) Greinke won't have much time for his clubhouse coniption - he bats second in the Dodgers fourth.
(16) Fundamentally many people are turned off by a political process when the major parties are not saying anything different enough about how we run the economy, and totally turned off by a style of politics which seems to rely on the levels of clubhouse theatrical abuse that you can throw across at each other in parliament and across the airwaves.” The hints at a new style come amid increasingly solid evidence that he will heavily defeat his three rival for the leadership when the result is announced at the QEII conference centre in Westminster on Saturday morning.
(17) Still, it stung him when the media criticized him for not doing more to prevent the fracturing of the Red Sox clubhouse during their 2011 September collapse, and, like nearly all sentient lifeforms, he ran into issues with Bobby Valentine in his lone season as the manager of the Red Sox.
(18) Based on 14 years of experience, it has been found that the Clubhouse model can be initiated, grow, and thrive in a developing country.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amateur footage of the gorilla and boy at Cincinnati Zoo Even if you don’t like the other humans in the club, we are trapped here, in our human clubhouse, by the strands of our shared DNA and our equal capacities for perception, emotion and communication.
(20) The super-friendly Surf Sevilla club runs courses (from €30), sessions and tours, most launching from jetties near the clubhouse on the Triana side.