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  • noun The part of a city where nightclubs are located.

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Examples

  • Killa Kela is best known as the clubland beatboxer.

    Mixmag - The world's biggest dance music and clubbing magazine 2009

  • A man was assaulted and is now fighting for his life in hospital after being beaten up in the heart of Norwich's "clubland" down Prince of Wales Road.

    Where on earth were the police ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • In an ever-rejuvenating place such as clubland, considering going to a night that has reached it's 1,000th party should probably be done with trepidation.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • A man was assaulted and is now fighting for his life in hospital after being beaten up in the heart of Norwich's "clubland" down Prince of Wales Road.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Forward' caused absolute havoc in clubland when it was released back in 2004.

    Joseph Patterson: Ten Grime Tracks of the Last Decade Joseph Patterson 2011

  • Forward' caused absolute havoc in clubland when it was released back in 2004.

    Joseph Patterson: Ten Grime Tracks of the Last Decade Joseph Patterson 2011

  • The first, 1988, was the warm-up as acid house graduated from hipster secret to the dominant sound of British clubland.

    The Second Summer of Love 2011

  • She gave her son his first sax when he was 13, and the following year Charlie was hanging out in the city's clubland listening to his saxophone hero Lester Young and others while Addie was at work as a night cleaner.

    A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him 2011

  • The images are sumptuous Sino stereotypes, though: at one moment, we seem to be watching a simulacrum of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; at another, a recreation of the east-meets-west clubland of 1920s Shanghai (complete with silk dress-clad prostitutes waylaying fedora-wearing clients).

    Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • Its first "eyes down" was at a church hall in south London in January 2009 after a late-night discovery of a bingo set revealed the furtive joy of this pastime, strangely hitherto overlooked by clubland.

    Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010

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