"clubbable" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more clubbable [comparative], most clubbable [superlative]
Etymology: club + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|club|able}} club + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} clubbable (comparative more clubbable, superlative most clubbable)
  1. (British) Sociable. Tags: British
    Sense id: en-clubbable-en-adj-NoTSBMl8 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able

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          "text": "Would not Jack Johnson be cut nowadays by even the rowdiest of Stock Exchange young men, and be voted a cad by every clubbable man above the class of ’ARRY? For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.",
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