From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
clobber \clobber\ n. personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take all your clobber?.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: {stuff}]
verb
1: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: {baste}, {batter}]
2: beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: {bat}, {drub}, {thrash}, {lick}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "clobber": bang, bash, bat, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, belt, best, biff, blank, blast, bonk, bulldoze, clap, clip, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cream, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, defeat, defeat utterly, drub, fetch, fetch a blow, hit, hit a clip, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lambaste, let have it, lick, overbear, overwhelm, paste, plunk, poke, punch, schmear, shellac, shut out, skin, skunk, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smear, smite, smother, snap, snow under, soak, sock, steamroller, strike, strike at, swat, swipe, take the cake, thrash, thump, thwack, trim, triumph, trounce, wallop, whack, wham, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop, win, worst, yerk
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
clobber vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare {mung}, {scribble}, {trash}, and {smash the stack}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
clobber To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare {mung}, {scribble}, {trash}, and {smash the stack}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16)
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