n.

1. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together;
   baseball club, ball club, nine
   
   • each club played six home games with teams in its own division
2. a formal association of people with similar interests;
   social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order
   
   • he joined a golf club
   • they formed a small lunch society
   • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
3. stout stick that is larger at one end
   
   • he carried a club in self defense
   • he felt as if he had been hit with a club
4. a building that is occupied by a social club;
   clubhouse
   
   • the clubhouse needed a new roof
5. golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball;
   golf club, golf-club
6. a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it
   
   • he led a small club
   • clubs were trumps
7. a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink;
   cabaret, nightclub, nightspot
   
   • don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
   • the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
   • he played the drums at a jazz club

v.

1. unite with a common purpose
   
   • The two men clubbed together
2. gather and spend time together
   
   • They always club together
3. strike with a club or a bludgeon;
   bludgeon