Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun clobber

1 sense of clobber

Sense 1
stuff, clobber -- (informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?")
       => personal property, personal estate, personalty, private property -- (movable property (as distinguished from real estate))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb clobber

2 senses of clobber

Sense 1
clobber, baste, batter -- (strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her")
       => beat, beat up, work over -- (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students")

Sense 2
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick -- (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!")
       => beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")

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