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- [klob-er]
- /ˈklɒb ər/
- /ˈklɒb.ər/
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- [klob-er]
- /ˈklɒb ər/
Definitions of clobber word
- uncountable noun clobber You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber. 3
- verb clobber If you clobber someone, you hit them. 3
- verb clobber If a person or company is clobbered by something, they are very badly affected by it. 3
- verb clobber to beat or batter 3
- verb clobber to defeat utterly 3
- verb clobber to criticize severely 3
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Origin of clobber
First appearance:
before 1940 One of the 7% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1940-45; origin uncertain
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Parts of speech for Clobber
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
clobber popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for clobber
verb clobber
- thrash — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- wallop — to beat soundly; thrash.
- trim — to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
noun clobber
- stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- tackle — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- things — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
Antonyms for clobber
verb clobber
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
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