clobber

5 definitions found

clobber - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  clobber \clobber\ n.
     personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take
     all your clobber?.
  
     Syn: stuff.
          [WordNet 1.5]

clobber - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  clobber
      n 1: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
           your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber]
      v 1: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who
           tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter]
      2: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
         "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat,
         clobber, drub, thrash, lick]

clobber - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  clobber
  
     <jargon> To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off
     the end of the array and clobbered the stack."
  
     Compare mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-12-16)
  

clobber - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

clobber - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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