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Definition of clobber
clobber
verb - transitive
- to strike a heavy blow.
His car got clobbered by a freight train.
Citation from "Sally Teel", Sons of Tucson (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 12 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Submitted by Daniel D. on Oct 28 2003.
- in computing: to overwrite data, usually unintentionally.
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack.
Citation from Common LISPcraft (book), Robert Wilensky, 1986 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
- to defeat.
The Bears clobbered the Cardinal.
Last edited on Jan 05 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.
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