clique
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
clique (plural cliques)
- A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
- This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
- 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings
- There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique.
- (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
- The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
- (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
- 1999, "Jackie", someone help me out? (on newsgroup alt.fan.leo-dicaprio)
- Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
- 2000, "- deanna -", ot: hiya (on newsgroup alt.fan.backstreet.boys)
- even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...
- 2001, "spee2k", future no doubt website.... (on newsgroup alt.music.no-doubt)
- you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats
[ sic] usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.
- you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats
- 1999, "Jackie", someone help me out? (on newsgroup alt.fan.leo-dicaprio)
- (small, exclusive group) coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp
- French: clique
- German: Clique
- Italian: cricca, conventicola, congrega, cosca, camarilla, consorteria, associazione
- Portuguese: panelinha
- Russian: кли́ка
- Spanish: pandilla, círculo, mundillo, bando, bolita, corrillo
clique (cliques, present participle cliquing; past and past participle cliqued)
- (intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
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