"clubful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: clubfuls [plural]
Etymology: club + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|club|ful|pos=noun}} club + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} clubful (plural clubfuls)
  1. As many as make up a club.
    Sense id: en-clubful-en-noun-6BhYB6I9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2011, Dave Thompson, Perry Farrell: The Saga of a Hypester",
          "text": "The sheer logistics of the project defied belief, everything from safeguarding the recording equipment from a clubful of frenzied fans, to actually twisting a high enough-quality sound from the in-house PA.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Stephen Fry, More Fool Me",
          "text": "They frequently don't have enough on them to supply a clubful of desperate potential clients (dealers often like to use the word client) keen to party away.",
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          "ref": "2017, Odai Johnson, London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America",
          "text": "Four nights a year, at Dillon's or Mrs. Swallow's Tavern, a clubful of influential Charleston Scots all gathered.",
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          "ref": "2019, Laura R. Fisher, Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era",
          "text": "“No one who has not had the experience can realize the pleasure and stimulus of being looked up to and followed, however undeservedly, by a clubful of hard-working girls,” Lockwood declares, uncannily predicting how, in the fictional world of The House of Mirth, \"the admiration and interest [Lily Bart's] presence excited among the tired workers at the cliub ministered in a new form to her insatiable desire to please.\"",
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