verb, noun
verb [VN] (informal)
1 to hit sb very hard:
If you do that again, I'll clobber you!
2 [oftenpassive] to affect sb badly or to punish them, especially by making them lose money:
The paper got clobbered with libel damages of half a million pounds.
3 [usuallypassive] to defeat sb completely:
We got clobbered in the game on Saturday.
noun [U] (BrE, informal) a person's clothes or equipment:
The real problem when travelling with a baby is the amount of clobber you have to take with you.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for clobber is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does clobber appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — clobber appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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