Clobber Definition

klŏbər
clobbered, clobbering, clobbers
verb
clobbered, clobbering, clobbers
To beat or hit repeatedly; maul.
Webster's New World
To strike with great force.
Webster's New World
To defeat decisively.
Webster's New World
To criticize harshly.
American Heritage
(slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
clobbers
Clothing.
Webster's New World
Possessions.
Webster's New World

(UK, slang) Equipment.

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Other Word Forms of Clobber

Noun

Singular:
clobber
Plural:
clobbers

Origin of Clobber

  • British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.

    From Wiktionary

  • British slang from 19th Century.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Clobber Sentence Examples

  • Choose a register which is normally saved and restored by function calls on your machine, so that library routines will not clobber it.

  • You need to be aware of this so that style settings in c-mode-common-hook do n't clobber your Java style.

  • And, talking of Baldrick, will someone please buy Mr Chapman some decent clobber?

  • In the scenario above, the work library will clobber the home library, and you would lose the four new references.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLO

Words Ending With

RERBER

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