Crossword clues for clobber
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clobber \clobber\ n. personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take all your clobber?.
Syn: stuff.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1941, British air force slang, probably related to bombing; possibly echoic. Related: Clobbered; clobbering. In late 19c. British slang the word principally had to do with clothing, as in clobber (n.) "clothes," (v.) "to dress smartly;" clobber up "to patch old clothes for reuse."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive slang English) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage. 2 (context transitive computing English) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly. Etymology 3
n. 1 (context UK Australia slang English) clothing. 2 (context UK slang English) equipment.
WordNet
n. informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: stuff]
v. strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: baste, batter]
beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: bat, drub, thrash, lick]
Wikipedia
Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others. Since 2005, it has been one of the events in the Computer Olympiad.
Players take turns to move one of their own pieces onto an orthogonally adjacent opposing piece, removing it from the game. The winner of the game is the player who makes the last move (i.e. whose opponent cannot move).
Clobber may refer to:
- Clobber, an abstract strategy game
- Clobber (cards), a trick based card game
- Clobbering, a computer term for overwriting (often accidentally)
- Clobber (aircraft), the NATO code name for Yakovlev Yak-42 aircraft
Usage examples of "clobber".
I passed up the temptation to clobber him with his own table and instead promised myself the tiny, if exquisite, pleasure of dealing with him before I left the hotel.
Twenty yards from the hotel I stepped into a doorway, cheerfully prepared to clobber anyone who seemed bent on following me, but after two or three minutes it became clear that no one was.
She might just start in and clobber me the way she did that boss lady!
So, if he was reading this right, Mohammed would probably have clobbered terrorists.
You were hungry enough to be eating raw meat, and yet you clobbered their woman in a way they can never have seen before.
Did he believe her, or was he hoping to prove she was just being spiteful so he could feel justified in clobbering her?
Ilunga was a good housewife to my dojo, though she would have clobbered anyone who called her that.
We never made provision for exogenesis, in case something clobbered us.
Tolito tossing Kook the seven-year-old about the car like a beanbag, and behind it all, clobbering polyrhythmic to the racketing of the shuttle, Jose on his tin drum, forearms and hands vibrating out beyond the persistence of vision, and a tireless smile across his teeth wide as the West Side.
Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike.
He was precociously intellectual, already a master of the snide remark, and his tongue helped get him clobbered every day for ten years.
Burthong swung a backhand return and then clobbered the leatherback with the edge of his shield.
In South Miami, the long-troubled Bakery Centre was clobbered by the abrupt closing of the Bodyworks spa and adjoining Sports Rock Cafe.
I stopped and was turning when something or someone rose out of the shadows at the base of the wall and clobbered me but good.
She was clobbered before she was half through, no one was taking any chances, so far and no further.