clobberverb [ T ]
uk/ˈklɒb.ər/us/ˈklɑː.bɚ/informalclobber verb [ T ] (HIT)
to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly:
If you do that again, I'll clobber you (one).
to punish someone:
The government is proposing new measures to clobber tax dodgers.
to harm someone financially:
The new supermarket is really going to clobber the small local shops.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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Punishing & punishments
Costing too much
clobber verb [ T ] (DEFEAT)
to defeat completely:
The government clobbered the opposition's proposals.
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Winning and defeating
- annihilate
- bank
- be one in the eye for sb idiom
- beat sb at their own game idiom
- beat sb hollow idiom
- outmanoeuvre
- outpace
- outperform
- outscore
- overpower
- pip
- reel
- sew
- sweep
- trouncing
- trump
- unassailable
- unbeaten
- undefeated
- wipe
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clobbernoun [ U ]
uk/ˈklɒb.ər/us/ˈklɑː.bɚ/UK informalpossessions, especially those that you carry around with you, or clothes:
I've got far too much clobber in my handbag.
Did you bring all your tennis clobber?
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Belongings and possessions
- accoutrements
- asset
- belongings
- capital assets
- chattel
- for
- landholding
- lost property
- lost property office
- lost-and-found
- materially
- name
- of
- possession
- property
- resource
- swag
- thing
- toxic asset
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