Synonyms for clobber

Grammar : Verb

Spell : klob-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈklɒb ər

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Définition of clobber

Origin : 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, e.g. clobber (n.) "clothes," (v.) "to dress smartly;" clobber up "to patch old clothes for reuse."

verb hit, beat

Example sentences :

It covered my hitting a girl in Ohio with my car, hard enough to clobber her.
Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith

I don't want to spend them fighting off attempts to clobber me every thirty seconds.
Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz

I suggest to you, Brassbound, that the clobber belongs to Lady Sis.
Extract from : « Captain Brassbound's Conversion » by George Bernard Shaw

And then whatever bully boys you're running will clobber us?
Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton

The clobber decoration is not alone in enamel colours or gold, but even lacquer is used for the same purpose.
Extract from : « Chats on Oriental China » by J. F. Blacker

Clobber, klob′ėr, n. a paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various

We can't get them and all their clobber in the limber and, if I know 'em, they won't be parted from their belongings.
Extract from : « 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories » by Various

Redbrook: you pack that clobber in the lady's portmanteau, and put it aboard the yacht for her.
Extract from : « Captain Brassbound's Conversion » by George Bernard Shaw

Bey said, "If we can stop waxing philosophic for a while and get back to how most efficiently to clobber these Arabs—"
Extract from : « Border, Breed Nor Birth » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

It was evident that we were being driven and so long as we went to their satisfaction they weren't going to clobber us.
Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith

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