nightclub

Etymology

From night +‎ club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

nightclub (plural nightclubs)

1. A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.

   Hypernym: club

   • 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22:

     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.

   • 2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

2. (Philippines) A strip club.

Verb

nightclub (third-person singular simple present nightclubs, present participle nightclubbing, simple past and past participle nightclubbed)

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To 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.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nightclub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaidklub/ [ˈnai̯ð̞.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aidklub
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaiklub/ [ˈnai̯.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aiklub

Noun

nightclub m (plural nightclubs or nightclubes)

1. nightclub