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    [Noun]  | "clan" | \ ˈklan \


    1: a Celtic group especially in the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor

    2: a group of people tracing descent from a common ancestor : family

    3: a group united by a common interest or common characteristics


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic clann offspring, clan, from Old Irish cland plant, offspring, from Latin planta plant;

    [Noun]  | "sub*clan" | \ ˈsəb-ˌklan \


    1: a clan that is part of a larger clan


    Origin: 1856 ;

    [Noun]  | "clans" 


    1: a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially;


      * e.g., " ... that clan of football fans has parties every weekend on which the New England Patriots play "



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    2: a group of persons who come from the same ancestor;


      * e.g., " ... the whole clan gets together only for holidays "



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    [Noun]  | "clan" 


    1: a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially;


      * e.g., " ... that clan of football fans has parties every weekend on which the New England Patriots play "



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    2: a group of persons who come from the same ancestor;


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     [ "Clan-Clan" ]

    1: verb: To stab or shank someone.

      * e.g.,  ... Aww man, I just got Clan-Clan'd! 


     [ "Clan-Clan" ]

    2: From a particular series of Call of Duty 4 Domination matches where a player by the handle ClanClan (slightly changed to retain anonymity)seemed to be stabbing anyone in a 5 foot radius, he was dubbed "BladeMaster" by the other players, author included.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, I just Clan-Clan'd that sucka! 

     [ "clan" ]

    1: A word to refer to a closely-knit group usually quite large and fiercly defensive of eachother. Comes from the Clans of Scotland- who were blood relatives.

      * e.g.,  ... Quake II clans. 


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    2: Now used more as a term for groups of video-games.

     [ "clan" ]

    1: A group of online gamers or lanning gamers who fight as a united group.

      * e.g.,  ... Telstra GameArena runs Clan Ladders, where anything up to hundreds of clans usually about 8 ppl can come together and fight on common servers with constant rules. Ie: anti cheating etc 


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    2: Often traced back to there been friends, colleges or just fighting for a common goal such as to be the considered best, to be considered a real gamer and not a noob or just fun

      * e.g.,  ... In games such as Cs or Dod 

     [ "Clan" ]

    1: A dope group of people with a dope common interest.

      * e.g.,  ... Whats your clan? 

     [ "clan" ]

    1: A group of people working together in online multiplayer games. They may just play together for fun, or have training sessions and compete in tournaments.

      * e.g.,  ... Clanners need to get outside more often. 


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    2: While there are exceptions, a majority of clans are filled with holier-than-thou assholes who think they're really something because they have a tag in front of their nickname. Any questioning of clan members invariably results in getting insulted repeatedly, so it's best to just let them be idiots and remember what it was like to be a teenager on the Internet anonymously.

     [ "Clan" ]

    1: America will always make us stronger we will take over the world and we can be able to make it more difficult for America

      * e.g.,  ... The clan war is stupid but it will not work out for me to be stupid 

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    1: A clan is similar to the mafia family,

      * e.g.,  ... my mothers mother is the head of the clan because she is decended from the origional founder by blood, this means that i am a member of the family, i am also a 'pure blood member' because i am directly decended from the origional founder, although my father is loved by all in the family, he will never be more than an assosiate because he is not blood related to the clan. 


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    2: Clan name= origional family name


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    3: A number of families=a clan


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    4: clans are also know as Famlies, other families can become assosiates of the clan by marrying into it but they will never be members or 'family' because you have to be related by blood, clan or family members can be members of a gang structure but the family always comes first, membership of gangs also leads to links or ties between clans.

     [ "Not Clan" ]

    1: Trash 7th grader wanna be clan

      * e.g.,  ... Not Clan is trash at any game 

     [ "Clan" ]

    1: Family, extended family

      * e.g.,  ... Hows the clan? (how is your family?!) 


     [ "Clan" ]

    2: Comes from the Irish language - Gaeilge


     [ "Clan" ]

    3: (Gaeilge) Clann, meaning, children, offspring; race, decendants; followers etc


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    4: Also in the Scottish Gaelic language (Gàidhlig), same meaning

     [ "CLANNING" ]

    1: It's when you are addicted to a phone game called clash of clans so addicted that you ignore your friends,family,the road or that cop outside your window

      * e.g.,  ... Joe lost his job wife and kids to clanning 

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