clobber

1. 1.

   informal terms for personal possessions

   “did you take all your clobber?”

   Synonymsstuff

   Broaderpersonal property

Other forms of clobber

plural

clobbers·

past tense

clobberred·

present participle

clobberring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clobber

What does clobber mean?

clobber means "strike violently and repeatedly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clobber?

clobber has 2 syllables: clob-ber. The stress falls on "clob". In IPA it is /ˈklɑbɚ/.

What is another word for clobber?

Close synonyms include baste, batter, cream, bat, drub. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clobber a common word?

clobber is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.