clique

CEFRC1

/kliːk/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A small group of people who spend time together and exclude others.
02
noun
Extra detail
A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meanings

A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
A shortened form of the Skeleton Clique, the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots.

In context

The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings
Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet)
The Skeleton Clique, often referred to as just 'the clique,' is what members of the Twenty One Pilots fandom have dubbed themselves.
2016, “Skeleton Clique Shows Support for Twenty One Pilots”, in The Horizon, Westwood Student Press
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.
2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet)

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Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English.