Laid back country club once cleared out tourists with different ways of speaking (8)
I believe the answer is:
dialects
'ways of speaking' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'laid back country club once cleared out tourists with different' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'laid' is 'dial' which is within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for dialects that I've seen is " Accents and idioms".)