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Flog vs Club - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between flog and club

is that flog is to use something to extreme; to abuse while club is to unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

As a noun club is

a heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or playthingWp.

flog

English

Verb

(flogg)
  • To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
  • To use something to extreme; to abuse.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=VL idles rough when warm... , group=aus.cars , author=Chris Wardrop , date=October 30 , year=2002 , passage=I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging' the car then stopping, then driving slow then ' flogging it again. citation
  • (UK) To sell something.
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    • , title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days , group=aus.comms.mobile , author=Paul Edwards , date=January 26 , year=2001 , passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month. citation
  • (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
  • (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
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    • , title=Nothing to Crow About , group=rec.sport.football.australian , author=Mr Ripper , date=August 16 , year=1999 , passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond. citation
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    • , title=Eng v Aus 1977 , group=aus.sport.cricket , author=Cas. , date=June 9 , year=2001 , passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test. citation
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    • , title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs , group=aus.sport.rugby-league , author=Greg Vincent }:c{ , date=June 5 , year=2004 , passage=It'll make the Raiders look good.  Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs. citation
  • (agriculture) To exploit.
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    • Synonyms

    * (to whip or scourge) whip

    Derived terms

    * flog a dead horse * flogger * flog the log

    See also

    * flail * flay * vapulate

    Anagrams

    * golf ----

    club

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
  • #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
  • An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
  • #*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin):
  • #*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
  • A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
  • *(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
  • *:They laid down the club .
  • *(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
  • *:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
  • An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
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  • A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
  • #A playing card marked with such a symbol.
  • #:
  • (lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
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    • Synonyms

    * (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) team

    Hyponyms

    * *

    Derived terms

    * benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the club

    Verb

    (clubb)
  • to hit with a club.
    • He clubbed the poor dog.
  • To join together to form a group.
  • * Dryden
    • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
  • (transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    • a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  • To go to nightclubs.
    • We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  • To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
  • To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
    • to club the expense
  • (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  • (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
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    • , year=1876 , author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S. , title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition , publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons , page=80 , passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. }}
  • To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
    • to club exertions
  • (military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

    • Anagrams

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