Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a club (weapon).

Etymologies

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club +‎ -like

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Examples

  • There is a somewhat different alternative to home existence; I have heard of communities duly arranged for the requirements of writers, where they enjoy a kind of clublike privacy and security from interruption.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • And he swung one clublike fist around in a great circle, barely over Horsejaw's head, so that the wind made the bully's hah - stand on end.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • "Growrrh!" he roared, poking one clublike finger at the dangling tentacles.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • We wish the Four Seasons another happy 50 years, but we think you don't need a weatherman to tell you the wind is blowing in Macondo's direction: affordable, small plates of attractive original food, in clublike settings with drinks from blenders, not from red Burgundies costing in the triple digits.

    It's Autumn at the Four Seasons 2009

  • Police say all three victims were brutally beaten in the head with a clublike weapon.

    Their Boxes Were Still Packed 2008

  • The demon lashed out with its clublike fists, dropping them like hammers.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • Forum Are you willing to give up the hands-on service of a bricks-and-mortar luxury retail store for the clublike, limited-time-only access of Internet luxury shopping?

    Gucci-Stalking: 2008

  • Droppings from a gobbler are elongated and measure about 2 inches, with a J-hook or clublike bulb on one end.

    How To Track Turkeys 2005

  • The artifacts -- dinner plates, cribbage boards, clay pipes, crystal stemware -- show that while drinking, gambling, smoking, and perhaps prostitution were mainstays, the saloon atmosphere was more sedate and clublike than legend has it.

    Books: Wild West Saloon Life 2005

  • Carrying waddies their clublike weapons, with which they had been hunting and dressed in kangaroo robes, they were wary of him.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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