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Definitions for Clobber
ˈklɒb ərclob·ber

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stuff, clobberverb

    informal terms for personal possessions

    "did you take all your clobber?"

  2. clobber, baste, batterverb

    strike violently and repeatedly

    "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"

  3. cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lickverb

    beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

    "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

Wikipedia

  1. Clobber

    Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others. Since 2005, it has been one of the events in the Computer Olympiad.

ChatGPT

  1. clobber

    Clobber generally refers to hitting or striking someone or something very hard. It can also mean to defeat or criticize someone decisively. In computing, it means to overwrite a file or data accidentally or deliberately.

Wikidata

  1. Clobber

    Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others. Since 2005, it has been one of the events in the Computer Olympiad. Players take turns to move one of their own pieces onto an orthogonally adjacent opposing piece, removing it from the game. The winner of the game is the player who makes the last move.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Clobber

    klob′ėr, n. a paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather. [Ety. dub.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Clobber in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Clobber in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Clobber in a Sentence

  1. Lon Kightlinger:

    It should be a wake-up call for not only for every person, for every health center in Madagascar, but for the whole world. These diseases come back and they clobber us if we are not protected, these are living viruses who are very clever, and they will find us.

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