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CLUB LAW

Definition: CLUB LAW

CLUB LAW

1. Government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: CLUB LAW

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

CLUB LAW. Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CLUB LAW

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Compulsion

Force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law.

Illegality

Mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CLUB LAW

Specialty definitions using "CLUB LAW": Stafford Law. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLUB LAW

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

by club law

13

club law strip

10

by club law motorcycle

4

club law

4

by club law social

3

angeles club law los strip

3

club law social

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLUB LAW

Language Translations for "CLUB LAW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

statut i klubit, kod i klubit. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

юмручно право. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pìstní právo. (various references)

   

German

  

Faustrecht. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ököljog (club-law). (various references)

   

Manx

  

reill ny laue lajer. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubclay awlay

   

Romanian

  

dreptul celui mai tare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

устав клуба, кулачное право. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

klupski zakon. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ley social. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nävrätt. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

статут клубу, кулачне право. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CLUB LAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-l-l-u-w"

-2 letters: bulla.

-3 letters: ball, bawl, blaw, bull, call, caul, claw, club, cull, wall, waul.

-4 letters: alb, all, awl, bal, cab, caw, cub, lab, lac, law, wab.

-5 letters: ab, al, aw, ba, la.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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