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    clob·ber
    [ˈkläbər]
    verb
    informal
    clobber (verb) · clobbers (third person present) · clobbered (past tense) · clobbered (past participle) · clobbering (present participle)
    1. hit (someone) hard:
      "if he does that I'll clobber him!"
      • treat or deal with harshly:
        "the recession clobbered other parts of the business"
      • defeat heavily:
        "the Braves clobbered the Cubs 23–10"
    Origin
    Second World War (apparently air force slang): of unknown origin.
    clob·ber
    [ˈkläbər]
    noun
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    informal
    clobber (noun)
    1. clothing, personal belongings, or equipment:
      "I found all his clobber in the locker"
    Origin
    late 19th century: of unknown origin.
    clob·ber
    [ˈkläbər]
    verb
    clobber (verb) · clobbers (third person present) · clobbered (past tense) · clobbered (past participle) · clobbering (present participle)
    1. add enameled decoration to (porcelain).
    Origin
    late 19th century: of unknown origin.
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    verb
    1. hit (someone) hard:
      hit
      strike
      slap
      smack
      cuff
      punch
      beat
      thrash
      thump
      batter
      belabor
      drub
      hook
      pound
      smash
      slam
      welt
      pummel
      hammer
      bang
      knock
      swat
      whip
      flog
      cane
      sucker-punch
      box someone's ears
      whack
      wallop
      bash
      biff
      bop
      clout
      clip
      sock
      swipe
      crown
      lick
      belt
      tan
      lay into
      pitch into
      lace into
      let someone have it
      lam
      whomp
      deck
      floor
      stick one on
      dot
      slosh
      twat
      welly
      slug
      boff
      bust
      whale
      dong
      quilt
      smite
      swinge
      baste
      buffet
      birch
      rain blows on
      give someone a (good) beating/drubbing
      beat the living daylights out of
      give someone a (good) hiding
      lay one on
      knock into the middle of next week
      king-hit
    noun
    1. clothing, personal belongings, or equipment:
      clothes
      clothing
      garments
      attire
      garb
      dress
      wear
      wardrobe
      outfit
      costume
      turnout
      finery
      gear
      garms
      togs
      duds
      getup
      glad rags
      kit
      rig-out
      threads
      apparel
      raiment
      habiliments
      habit
      vestments
      articles of clothing/dress
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    1. You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber. [British, informal] [...] 2. If you clobber someone, you hit them. [informal] [...] 3. If a person or company is clobbered by something, they are very badly affected by it. [informal] [...] Fill in the blank with the correct answer.

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    What does Clobber mean in baseball?
    The word clobber was originally World War II British air force slang, in the 1940s, and usually referred to aerial bombing. “did you take all your clobber?” dominatedchampionship To clobber is to beat up or to defeat soundly in a game. You can say your favorite baseball team clobbers the competition if they win with a score of 10 to 0.

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    What does Clabber mean?
    (used with a plural verb) clothes ( def 1 ). to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece). clabber. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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    How do clobbers work?
    Usually programmer explicitly declares registers which are clobbered by his inline asm code but some may be considered to be trashed by default and that's where getClobbers come into play. getClobbers returns empty result for most targets.

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    What happens if you Clobber someone?
    If you clobber someone, you hit them. Hillary clobbered him with a vase. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. a. b. 2. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. 1. 2. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

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    What is a Clobber in LLVM?
    Returns a string of target-specific clobbers, in LLVM format. So, what is a clobber? A clobbered register is a register which is trashed i.e. modified in unpredictable way by inline assembler. This usually happens when you need a temp. register or use particular instruction which happens to modify some register as a by-product.

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  2. Clobber is a slang term that can mean123:
    • To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.
    • To defeat decisively; drub; trounce.
    • To denounce or criticize vigorously.
    • To punish someone.
    • To harm someone financially.
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    verb (used with object)Slang. to batter severely; strike heavily: He tried to clobber me with his club. to defeat decisively; drub; trounce. to denounce or criticize vigorously.

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    Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. clob·ber (klŏb′ər) tr.v. clob·bered, clob·ber·ing, clob·bers Slang 1. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.

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    clobber verb [T] (HIT) to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly: If you do that again, I'll clobber you (one). to punish someone: The government is proposing new measures to clobber tax dodgers. to harm someone financially: The new supermarket is really going to clobber the small local shops.

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