I. ˈkläbə(r) noun
( -s )
Etymology: probably alteration of clothes
1. slang Britain : wearing apparel
dressed in his bathing clobber
2. slang Britain : gear
loaded himself with a lot of clobber
II. transitive verb
( clobbered ; clobbered ; clobbering -b(ə)riŋ ; clobbers )
slang Britain : dress , tog — often used with up
III.
chiefly dialect
variant of clabber I
IV.
chiefly Midland
variant of clabber II
V. noun
( -s )
Etymology: by alteration and shortening
: klaberjass
VI. transitive verb
( clobbered ; clobbered ; clobbering -b(ə)riŋ ; clobbers )
Etymology: obsolete clobber to patch, from obsolete clobber paste to fill cracks, from Scottish Gaelic clābar mud
: to load (already decorated porcelain) with added overglaze enameling
VII. verb
( clobbered ; clobbered ; clobbering -b(ə)riŋ ; clobbers )
Etymology: origin unknown
transitive verb
1.
a. slang : to pound mercilessly : beat up : knock out : knock down
b. : to strike with crushing force
2. slang : to defeat overwhelmingly : smear
3. : to hit and demolish or severely damage (the target)
intransitive verb
: to crash in an aircraft : make a crash landing