I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He got clobbered by a kid on the playground.
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The kids are bored, and have nothing to do but clobber each other.
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The Lakers clobbered the Jazz, 83 to 66.
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We got clobbered last year by rising production costs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A summer jump in ad sales was clobbered by Black Wednesday.
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And as the electric industry is deregulated and marches toward increased competition, inefficient utilities could get clobbered.
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And Kinnock tells us we are being clobbered unduly because we shall pay £600 next year!
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Boy, do you feel alone when you get clobbered.
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Circumstantial evidence, I know, but evidence that strongly suggests that the engineer was clobbered by a heavy metallic instrument.
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John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in.
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Manage diversity, trainers preached, or risk getting clobbered in the global marketplace of the 21st century.
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Meanwhile, several Parnassus holdings were clobbered by disappointing earnings or other problems.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The rag trade adopted the same approach when it came to designing and flogging its clobber .
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The Special Branch man couldn't believe his eyes as all our clobber went into the plane at Elstree.
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They were girls who just wanted to have fun in dodgy clobber .
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With weight belt, ankle weights and all the rest of the clobber , I struggled to remember the buddy checks.