Clobber

Quick meaning: Clobber is a verb meaning (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
2. A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
3. (Australia, British, slang) Clothing; clothes.
4. (British, slang) Equipment.
5. A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
6. (slang) A beating.

Example Sentences

The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.

In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to "clobber" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.

Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.

So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.

Word Forms

• clobbers
• clobbering
• clobbered

Synonyms for clobber

Depending on context, synonyms include slog, slug, clobbering, clubbing, thumping, lick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include batter, thrash, lick, stuff, baste, drub.

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