1. A thick and heavy shoe
   "The workers wore sturdy clodhoppers for protection on the construction site";
   - brogan, brogue, work shoe
    
2. [informal] An awkward stupid person
   "He behaved like a clodhopper at the dinner party";
   - lout, clod [informal], stumblebum [N. Amer, informal], goon [informal], oaf, lubber, lummox [informal], lump [informal], gawk, clot [Brit], clodpole [archaic, informal]

Derived forms: clodhoppers

Type of: clumsy person, shoe

Encyclopedia: Clodhopper