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Definition: Clobber |
ClobberNoun1. Informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?". Verb1. Strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her". 2. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ClobberSynonyms: stuff (n), baste (v), bat (v), batter (v), drub (v), lick (v), thrash (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Clobber |
| Specialty definitions using "clobber": walk off the end of. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Old Mother Clobber (1958) Camp Clobber (1958) | |
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 | Hammer; beat; clobber; bang; pound; mallet; bludgeon; bang; bash; thump; thwack. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Clobber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.26% of the time. "Clobber" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.26% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 44.74% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clobber | 5 |
clobber designer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clobber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sulmoj mga ajri, rrah keq, plaçkë (belongings, chattel, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, spoil, stuff, swag, things, trap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ضرب بقسوة (do over, lather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | критикувам безпощадно (excoriate), напердашвам (dress down, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, skin, thrash, whale), принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, appendages, appointments, belongings, equipage, etceteras, findings, fittings, fixings, habiliment, materials, paraphernalia, requisites, tackle, things, trimming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hadry (rags, stuff, tatters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کتک زدن (Beat, Bludgeon, Drub, Mug, Smack, Thrash), لباس (Attire, Clothing, Costume, Dress, Garb, Thing, Vest, Vestment), وصله کردن (Clout, Patch, Piece, Vamp), جامه (Apparel, Costume, Garment, Gear, Habit, Raiment, Suit, Thing), بهم پیوستن (Bind, Concrete, Graft, Incorporate, Interlock, Knit, Knot, Link, Pan, Seam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päihittää (beat, wallop), kolkata (bump off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tabasser, nippes, fringues, battre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lederpaste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clout, cudgel, hit, impinge, knock, larrup, maul, rap, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat, thrash), κοπανώ, κοπανάω (slog), χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ringy-rongy, cókmók (bag and baggage, belongings, crap, doings, duds, goods and chattels, kit, paraphernalia, traps), cucc (bag and baggage, doings, duds, gear, goods and chattels, number, plunder), ócska holmi (duds, trumpery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obberclay espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lathery, lay off, maltreatment, maul, pasteboard, pomology, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop). (various references) одежда (aparel, apparel, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, garments, get up, maternity clothes, raggery, raiment, rig, rigging, the outward man, tog, toggery, togs, turn out, undercoat, vestment, wear), атаковать цель с воздуха, избить (give a dusting). (various references) popravljati obuću, obućar (cobbler, shoemaker). (various references) golpear (bang, bat, beat, beat up on, beetle, bop, buffet, bump, clip, club, drive, flail, hit, jab, kick, knock, lash, punch, rap, rattle, slam, slap, slice, slog, smash, smite, strike, tee off, thrash, thump, wallop, whack), aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, club, cosh, cudgel, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thrash, thump, thwack, whack). (various references) tillhörigheter (belongings, duds, goods and chattels), slå ner (beat down, cast down, flatten, knock down, lay out, strike down, swoop down), sabla ner (knock, slash, tear to pieces), grejor (gear, kit, paraphernalia, tackle), ge på nöten (conk). (various references) เสื้อผ้า (duds, fronts, garment, rigging, robes, threads). (various references) yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), eleştirmek (animadvert, attack, carp, censure, chastise, comment, criticize, damn, examine, expostulate, notice, pan, put down, review, riddle), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, cudgel, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), benzetmek (assimilate, associate, bash up, belabor, belabour, compare, do one's job for one, imitate, knock galley-west, liken, simulate, sort smb. out), acımasızca dövmek. (various references) розбити ворога, одяг (apparel, caparison, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, togs, vestment, wear), атакувати наземну ціль з повітря, побити (overbear, punish, thrash, thresh, work over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clobber": clobbered, clobbering, clobbers. (additional references) | |
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"Clobber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleobaea, clobb, clobbed, clobbred, Clubbe, cobba, Cobbet, Colbea, dctober, Kleber, Kolhberg, Llobera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clobber" (pronounced klÄ"ber) |
| 4 | -l Ä" b er | slobber. |
| 3 | -Ä" b er | bobber, jobber, macabre, robber. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cobbler. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cobber, cobble, corbel, lobber. | |
-2 letters: ceorl, coble, roble. | |
-3 letters: bleb, blob, bloc, bole, bore, cero, cobb, cole, core, lobe, lore, orle, robe, role. | |
-4 letters: bel, bob, bro, cel, cob, col, cor, ebb, lob, obe, ole, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, rob, roc, roe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, el, er, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: clobbers, cobblers. | |
+2 letters: clobbered. | |
+3 letters: clobbering. | |
+4 letters: blockbuster, breechblock. | |
+5 letters: blockbusters, bonnyclabber, breechblocks, secobarbital. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 6F 62 62 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- -... -... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101111 01100010 01100010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l o b b e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 006F 0062 0062 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37788168687184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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