"on the club" meaning in All languages combined

See on the club on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-on the club.ogg
Etymology: From the term benefit club. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} on the club (not comparable)
  1. (UK, slang) Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit. Tags: UK, not-comparable, slang
    Sense id: en-on_the_club-en-adj-vclMv3YO Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_text": "From the term benefit club.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "on the club (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers \"on the club\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_the_club-en-adj-vclMv3YO",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-on the club.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-on_the_club.ogg/En-au-on_the_club.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-on_the_club.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the club"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the term benefit club.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "on the club (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers \"on the club\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-on the club.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-on_the_club.ogg/En-au-on_the_club.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-on_the_club.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the club"
}

Download raw JSONL data for on the club meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.