clobber \clobber\ n.
personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take
all your clobber?.
Syn: stuff.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
clobber
n : informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
your clobber?" [syn: stuff]
v 1: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who
tried to attack her" [syn: baste, batter]
2: beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the
other team on Sunday!" [syn: bat, drub, thrash, lick]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "clobber":
bang, bash, bat, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, belt, best,
biff, blank, blast, bonk, bulldoze, clap, clip, clout, clump,
coldcock, crack, cream, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, defeat,
defeat utterly, drub, fetch, fetch a blow, hit, hit a clip, jab,
knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lambaste, let have it,
lick, overbear, overwhelm, paste, plunk, poke, punch, schmear,
shellac, shut out, skin, skunk, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash,
smear, smite, smother, snap, snow under, soak, sock, steamroller,
strike, strike at, swat, swipe, take the cake, thrash, thump,
thwack, trim, triumph, trounce, wallop, whack, wham, whelm,
whitewash, whomp, whop, win, worst, yerk
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
clobber vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the
end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble,
trash, and smash the stack.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
clobber
To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end
of the array and clobbered the stack."
Compare mung, scribble, trash, and smash the stack.
[{Jargon File]
(1994-12-16)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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