English

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Etymology

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From club +‎ -ie.

Noun

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clubbie (plural clubbies)

  1. (US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse manager.
    • 1977, Maj. Ed Logan, quotee, Airman[1], page 38:
      "When he died, his baseball cap was given to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is the only clubbie to be honored with a display there."
  2. (US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse attendant.
    • 2019 July 10, John Cangelosi, K.P. Wee, John Cangelosi: The Improbable Baseball Journey of the Undersized Kid from Nowhere to World Series Champion[2], Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN:
      " [] But there are some stadiums where the clubhouse guys don't do a very good job, but there are clubbies that do a really outstanding job. [] "
  3. (Australia, New Zealand) A surfing lifeguard.

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