adj, noun, verb, slang ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat. informal

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of clobber form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   That clobbers. not-comparable

   "It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match."

Synonyms

All synonyms

beatingboom-boomclobberdefeatshellackingsmackdown

Example

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"It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match."

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