noun
- a small, exclusive group of people who share common interests and often exclude others
Usage: often implies exclusivity or elitism
Examples
- The popular clique at school rarely talked to anyone outside their group.
- She felt left out because she wasn’t part of the theater clique.
- The office clique always ate lunch together and gossiped about their coworkers.
- He tried to break into the clique of senior executives but found them unwelcoming.
- The art students formed a tight clique that met every Friday after class.
- Parents complained that the school’s cliques were creating social divisions among students.