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Rock chick shortly gets back in club (6)

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I believe the answer is:

basalt

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'rock' is the definition.
(basalt is a kind of rock)

'chick shortly gets back in club' is the wordplay.
'chick' becomes 'la' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'shortly' suggests the final letters.
'back' is a reversal indicator.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'club' becomes 'bat' (as in sporting equipment).
The final letter of 'gets' is 's'.
'la'+'s'='las'
'las' in reverse letter order is 'sal'.
'sal' put within 'bat' is 'BASALT'.

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(Other definitions for basalt that I've seen before include "Type of rock is a blast, oddly" , "rock from 2 [VOLCANO]" , "Black volcanic rock" , "Dark rock of volcanic origin" , "Common volcanic rock" .)

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