nightclub
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈnʌɪtklʌb//
A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
noun
- 1
A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.
EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.
This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.
- 2
A strip club.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Germanic *nahts Proto-West Germanic *naht Proto-West Germanic *nahti Old English niht Middle English nyght English night Proto-Germanic *klumpô Old Norse klubbabor. Middle English clubbe English club English nightclub From night + club.
verb
- 1
informalTo visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.
Our first night in the big city we went out nightclubbing. The next morning we stayed in hung over.
Forms
- plural
- nightclubs
- past tense
- nightclubbed
- past participle
- nightclubbed
- present participle
- nightclubbing
- third person singular
- nightclubs
nightclub · A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
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