What's the difference between clubber and lubber?

Clubber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who clubs.
  • (n.) A member of a club.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
  • (2) The survey found that, among clubbers who reported having taken ecstasy within the past month, three quarters had also taken mephedrone – known in the media as "meow meow" – within the same period.
  • (3) The crowd is as tightly packed as the front row of a gig, with clubbers on each other's shoulders.
  • (4) The Telegraph reports : "Brighton was criticised for its 'right-on' attitudes, awful parking and clubbers wearing garish outfits.
  • (5) Surveys suggest that gay clubbers take more drugs than the general population, but Measham said her findings may be indicative of wider trends in substance abuse.
  • (6) But Bonnie's death cemented Lord's view that he had a duty to keep clubbers as safe as possible.
  • (7) There is a striking sign that greets clubbers on the way in to Manchester's Warehouse Project – once they have ignored the big yellow amnesty box where they've been advised to post any illegal substances, and run the gauntlet of the club's 100 security staff and some eager sniffer dogs.
  • (8) The importance of this room really dawned on me,” he says of how Plastic’s People inspired a generation of dancefloor-focused clubbers, as well as himself.
  • (9) He bounced between out-there clubbers and the suburban devout, between hanging out in orgies and having a mostly unconsummated relationship with his Christian girlfriend (they would hand out vegan sandwiches to homeless people for thrills).
  • (10) Clubbers are being warned about a heightened risk of overdosing on ecstasy, amid evidence that the purity of the drug has increased to potentially dangerous levels.
  • (11) It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usually at around 6am, a little the worse for wear after a big night out.
  • (12) Among those contributing to the creative economy are the hundreds of British (who top the list of tourist numbers) and other European clubbers attracted by Berlin's 250 nightclubs.
  • (13) Nevertheless, they sold 130,000 records to clubbers hypnotised - or deafened into submission - by the boom.
  • (14) Clubbers are regularly taking the former legal high mephedrone alongside ecstasy and cocaine, a trend that experts warn could have grave health implications.
  • (15) Judging by the many clips on YouTube, its stars have taken their cues from rock stars rather than the clubbers who helped to create dance culture around the skill of DJs such as Frankie Knuckles .
  • (16) The research found that polydrug use was now the norm among clubbers, who are happy to mix legal, newly banned and established illegal club drugs.
  • (17) Now, following the clubbing explosion at the end of the 80s and two subsequent decades of partying, fatigue was setting in, with many clubbers put off by expensive tickets and the decline of the free party scene.
  • (18) Clubbers flock here twice a year for the Caister Soul Weekenders, which have been running for more than 30 years (next one 1-3 October).
  • (19) For some clubbers, the spirit of the late 80s and early 90s is gone and will never return.
  • (20) I do hope the grudging tone comes across however: giving a year and a half of prison time to a clubber who bought 20 ecstasy pills and split them with a friend (the guideline "starting point" the council recommends) remains an act of stupidity.

Lubber


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
  • (2) Meanwhile the Ceres report, launched by its president Mindy Lubber, highlights not only the widespread environmental and social impact of oil sands development, but also the high production costs and limited market for this fuel, for which companies have committed $200 billion in investments.
  • (3) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
  • (4) Cynthia Brzak An American employee of the UN High Commission for Refugees who accused the high commissioner at the time, the former Dutch minister Ruud Lubbers, of sexual harassment in May 2004.
  • (5) Björn Lubbers: "Karin [12.25pm], you're absolutely right.
  • (6) Ruud Lubbers, the former Dutch prime minister, is also attending.
  • (7) Lubbers resigned in 2005 after the report was leaked, showing the investigation upheld Brzak's complaint.
  • (8) Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, said the action by the banks and the food industry, along with China’s promise to enact a cap-and-trade program to curb climate emissions, are beginning to shift the debate in the US.
  • (9) Two neuropeptides with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
  • (10) Mindy Lubber , president of Ceres, a global coalition of investors concerned about climate change, said the secretary general’s decision to attend the march “sent a very important signal” about the importance of the summit.
  • (11) 10am: "Hi from a German living in the Netherlands," begins Björn Lubbers.
  • (12) The condition of skin autografts and allografts in rats and rabbits was checked by transcutaneous PO2 measurement according to R. HUCH, D. W. LUBBERS and A. HUCH.
  • (13) But given the staunch opposition to climate action among Republican party leaders, finding a pathway to congressional action will take time, Lubber acknowledged.
  • (14) Mindy Lubber is president of Ceres , a nonprofit organization mobilizing business and investor leadership on climate change and other global sustainability threats Read more stories like this: UN Climate Summit must show climate change action is in everyone’s interests World on track to be 4C warmer by 2100 because of missed carbon targets Advertisement Feature : 3 structural changes needed for a sustainable financial sector The finance hub is funded by EY.
  • (15) An octadecapeptide capable of inducing pigment dispersion in the chromatophores of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator has been isolated from lyophilized heads of the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera.
  • (16) Who better than Exxon Mobil to start answering the tough questions about the inevitable transition to a low-carbon global economy?” Mindy Lubber, president of the green investor network Ceres, said.

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