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Meanings of clobber in English

Catalan
apallissar
Spanish
aporrear

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.

apallissar

Informal terms for personal possessions.

Usage of clobber in English
1
Let's pick a fight on enterprise grounds where I can clobber you.'
Wired
2
Book now and don't be worrying about spending money on new clobber.
The Irish Times
3
I'm fed up with Colin leaving me the clobber to pick up.
Dagmar's daughter
4
OCI president Pat Hickey may well start packing his judo clobber.
The Irish Times
5
After all Elizabeth had done for him, and he'd threatened to clobber her!
Where heaven begins
6
There were timing books that would clobber the files, and that's no fun.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
7
Ain't I lushed you, and fed you, and found your clobber long enough?
The Chequers / Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set ...
8
Real will, of course, be in their renowned all-white clobber.
The Guardian
9
Not surprisingly, this clobber can take a while to remove.
The Guardian
10
Not as much as a scusa or don't-mind-me-if-I-clobber into you.
The Irish Times
11
I'll clobber you with the frying pan. She didn't look like she was kidding.
Midnight hero
12
Not only that, but just like the online store's clobber it's also super cheap.
News.com.au
13
I restrained myself, however, and didn't clobber him again.
Savage
14
Twinetoes lay in his navvy clobber on a dirty bed, drunk, dead to the world.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
15
My manly ego told me to step in and clobber the officer who'd shoved her.
Mortal Allies
16
Only those with no taste, no imagination and too much money wear head-to-toe catwalk clobber.
The Guardian
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Clobber through the time