Clubful

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.

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.

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

“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."