nightclub

plural nightclubs · alternative night club

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

   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.

   2008 March 21, Tim Sullivan, “Bhutanese reluctantly stepping into world of democracy”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2013

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   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.

   1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22

   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.

   2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

   Synonyms: nightspot

2. PhilippinesA strip club.

present singular third person nightclubs · participle present nightclubbing · participle past nightclubbed · past nightclubbed · alternative night club

1. ambitransitiveinformalTo 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.