clubful

English

Etymology

From club +‎ -ful.

Noun

clubful (plural clubfuls)

1. As many as make up a club.
   • 2011, Dave Thompson, Perry Farrell: The Saga of a Hypester:

     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.

   • 2014, Stephen Fry, More Fool Me:

     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.

   • 2017, Odai Johnson, London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America:

     Four nights a year, at Dillon's or Mrs. Swallow's Tavern, a clubful of influential Charleston Scots all gathered.

   • 2019, Laura R. Fisher, Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era:

     “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."