Meaning of clobber In English

• 0 to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly:

  • If you do that again, I'll clobber you (one).

  • The government is proposing new measures to clobber tax dodgers.

  • The new supermarket is really going to clobber the small local shops.

• 1 to defeat completely:

  • The government clobbered the opposition's proposals.

• 2 possessions, 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?

• 3 to hit hard:

  • He got clobbered by a piece of falling rock.

  • fig. A severe storm clobbered the region.

• 4 to defeat completely:

  • The party has been clobbered by a string of humiliating political losses.