clobber
Noun
- informal terms for personal possessions; “did you take all your clobber?”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- personal property
- personal estate
- personalty
- private property
Verb
- strike violently and repeatedly; “She clobbered the man who tried to attack her”
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”
- Synonyms
- cream
- bat
- drub
- thrash
- lick
- Less specific
- beat
- beat out
- crush
- shell
- trounce
- vanquish
- Related
- thrashing
- walloping
- debacle
- drubbing
- slaughter
- trouncing
- whipping
- thrashing
- walloping
- debacle
- drubbing
- slaughter
- trouncing
- whipping
- Informal hit (someone) hard
if he does that I'll clobber him!
treat or deal with harshly
the recession clobbered other parts of the business
defeat heavily
the Braves clobbered the Cubs 23–10
Verb
Verb
- add enameled decoration to (porcelain).
Wikipedia
In software engineering and computer science, clobbering a file, processor register or a region of computer memory is the process of overwriting its contents completely, whether intentionally or unintentionally, or to indicate that such an action will likely occur. The Jargon File defines clobbering as
To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, and smash the stack.