clubbing

• IPA^(key): /ˈklʌbɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ

clubbing

1. present participle and gerund of club

clubbing (countable and uncountable, plural clubbings)

1. (countable) An instance of using a club.

   There was an outbreak of near-fatal clubbings in that area.

   • 2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.

2. (countable, medicine) A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
3. (uncountable) The practice of frequenting nightclubs.

   We're going clubbing tonight.

   I don't like clubbing.

4. The development of clubroot in a plant.

Unadapted borrowing from English clubbing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.biŋk/
• Rhymes: -abiŋk
• Syllabification: clu‧bbing

clubbing m inan

1. (colloquial) clubbing (practice of frequenting nightclubs)

• clubbing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• clubbing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

clubbing m (plural clubbings)

1. clubbing