Lexic.us

Definition of Clobber

1. Noun. Informal terms for personal possessions. "Did you take all your clobber?"

2. Verb. Strike violently and repeatedly. "They want to clobber the prisoners "; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"

3. Verb. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. "The fighter managed to clobber his opponent"; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

Definition of Clobber

1. Verb. (transitive slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly. ¹

3. Noun. (UK Australia slang) Clothing. ¹

4. Noun. (UK slang) Equipment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clobber

1. to trounce [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: trounce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clobber

cloaking device cloaking devices cloakings cloakless cloaklike cloakmaker cloakmakers cloakroom cloakrooms cloaks

cloam cloams cloath cloaths clobazam clobber (current term) clobbered clobbering clobbers clobenpropit

clobenzepam clobenzorex clobenztropine clobetasol clobetasol propionate clobutinol clochard clochards cloche cloches

Literary usage of Clobber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chinese Porcelain by William Giuseppi Gulland (1902)
"clobber WARE OR REDECORATED WARE. Mention has already been made of the repainting of blue and white in Europe. No. 418. Mandarin-shaped jar with cover. ..."

2. A Tour in Ireland: With General Observations on the Present State of that by Arthur Young (1780)
"... and this is bonny clobber. OF barley they fow fix pecks, each 21 quarts, and the crop is generally fiom 20 to 30 fold, or at 25 it is 150 pecks. ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"The clobber (old clothes) which have been presented by charitable ... I vised to get a good many pieces about this time, so I. used to clobber myself up and ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1879)
"Next morning I got up about seven, and went home to change my clobber and ... So he said, "Wasn't there any clobber! " So I said, "Yes, there's a cartload. ..."

5. Argot and Slang: A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (1889)
"Next morning I got up about seven, and went home to change my clobber ... So he snid, " Wasn't there any clobber ?" So I said, " Yes, there's a cartload. ..."

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