Social group that is a mix between clique and cohort. For instance, all nerds are of the same tribe, all geeks part of another, all suits another, all jocks another etc. There is of course lots of cross over.

Adheres to the "everything here is black except for the translucent blue stuff, oh - and that'll be $8 for that drink" rule of How to Be Hip and Trendy. Also note: Sunday must be amateur DJ night. Cause there was one there. You wouldn't think having an amateur DJ would be necessary in a bar without a cabaret license and with maybe 12 customers (including the 8 of us), but apparently it was.

Maybe that's why I paid $8 for that vodka.

Tribe (?), n. [L. tribus, originally, a third part of the Roman people, afterwards, a division of the people, a tribe; of uncertain origin: cf. F. tribu.]

1.

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.

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A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

2. Bot.

A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

⇒ By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.<-- in modern taxonomy, the family is between order and genus. -->

3.

A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.

4.

A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.

5. Stock Breeding

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

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Tribe, v. t.

To distribute into tribes or classes.

Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. Abp. Nicolson.

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