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Definition of Clobbering
1. clobber [v] - See also: clobber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clobbering
Literary usage of Clobbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
""There had been precedents for such artistic " vamping " and " clobbering."
Did not Jacob Tonson incite the engraver of the plates to Dryden's Virgil to ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"They are now past 'clobbering, ' reviving,' or ' translating,' they are, in fact,
at the lowest point of Fortune's wheel : but the next turn puts them in ..."
3. Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why by Earl H. Tilford, Jr. (1991)
"... to the Air Force log, he was too busy trying to secure additional helicopter
gunships to join the Hueys in clobbering the friendly troops below. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"clobbering. From Hi form, this word seems to claim a Celtic origin. But the only
term I have met with, which may be viewed as a cognate, ..."
5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
""A term used to express that strange gabbling noise people make, who are talking
in a language we do not understand ;" Gall. ; synon. clobbering, HALLION ..."
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