Verb: clobber kló-bu(r)
Usage: informal
Usage: Brit, informal
Usage: informal
- Strike violently and repeatedly
"She clobbered the man who tried to attack her";
- baste, batter
- Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
"We clobbered the other team on Sunday!";
- cream [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]
Usage: Brit, informal
- A person's movable possessions
"did you take all your clobber?";
- personal property, personal estate, personalty [formal], private property, belongings, stuff [informal]
Derived forms: clobbered, clobbering, clobbers
Type of: beat, beat out, beat up, belongings, crush, holding, property, shell [US], trounce, vanquish, work over [informal]
Encyclopedia: Clobber