clubbable

John Tooley is a part-time senior youth worker, who for two nights a week helps vulnerable youngsters - "the ones who don't join the Scouts or other clubs, not being what you'd call clubbable."

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Boswell's life is unusual in illuminating not only the underworld of the prostitutes among whom he spent an impressive proportion of his time but also the heavy, static society of the Scottish aristocracy and the fierily loquacious world of London's "clubbable" men.

Bozzy's Life 2001

They were probably "clubbable" persons, friends with a common interest, each pursuing his own path with perfect freedom, a method which must have enhanced the harmony and efficiency of their meetings.

The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester 1881

Dr. Johnson calls a thoroughly "clubbable" man, eminently social and familiar; in private interviews and sometimes in public, overflowing with

Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln 1865

Is this a confirmation, I wonder, of the theory entertained by Mr. Emerson and other philosophers, that woman is not a 'clubbable' animal?

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

There was also the social contact issue - men in a field made more "clubbable" contacts with each other ... which they then drew on for mutual invitations ... no conscious discrimination, but just the instinctive obviousness of getting hold of x or y or asking them for recommendations, usually also male.

Life and style | guardian.co.uk Julian Baggini 2010

I can't think of any of the current candidates who quite fit the term 'clubbable' (which is perhaps just as well as we need someone who isn't too deep in the club atmopshere).

politicalbetting.com 2009

Union League Club by our most enthusiastic Board member bar none who is the essential "clubbable" character.

Brian Dickie 2009

11 - I can think of a few who are 'clubbable' in another sense of the word.

politicalbetting.com 2009

For more than two decades, Washington's mainstreamers considered Cheney a rare clubbable Republican—genial, brainy he studied for a Ph.D. in political science, and safe.

Notable & Quotable 2011