clobber

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To hit or bash severely

   To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or…

   To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.

   • It is therefore clear that the system itself must be truly "clobber proof"; that is, no user may be capable of changing anyone else's program or tying up the system in any way that would disrupt normal service to other users.
   • 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.
3. 3

   A beating.

   • Near-synonyms: clobbering, clubbing, thumping
   • He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women^([sic]) was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]
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   1. 4

      A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.

   2. 5

      Clothing

      Clothing; clothes.

      • W'y, they call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marchin' clobber / With the— / (Chorus) Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot! loot! loot!
      • Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
      • I was thinkin' of the widow while I gets me clobber on— / Like a feller will start thinkin' of the times that's past an' gone.
   3. 6

      Equipment.

   4. 7

      A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.

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