CLUBBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clubbing mean? 

• CLUBBING (noun)
  The noun CLUBBING has 1 sense:

1. a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease

  Familiarity information: CLUBBING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUBBING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("clubbing" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

 Context examples 

Clubbing has been noted with a wide variety of conditions, including pulmonary and cardiac diseases, liver disorders, and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

(Clubbing of Fingers, NCI Thesaurus)

"Make for the wood and keep together," cried Lord John, clubbing his rifle. "The brutes mean mischief."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, I shall do the clubbing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He wanted, not to escape a clubbing, but to have the leadership.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Symptoms usually appear in childhood and include meconium ileus, poor growth despite good appetite, malabsorption and foul bulky stools, chronic bronchitis with cough, recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, emphysema, clubbing of the fingers, and salt depletion in hot weather.

(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

“We must club the seals,” I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. “I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“But the clubbing?” I suggested.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, as the moments went by, it came to me that the situation was analogous to the one in which I had approached the long-maned bull, my intention of clubbing obscured by fear until it became a desire to make him run.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)