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"Clobber" in a Sentence (21 examples)
I missed an opportunity to clobber him.
I didn't think that I'd get so close to my neighbor; but it was the only way I could clobber him.
Aren't you hot with all that clobber on?
This new clobber is really comfy.
Why do you need so much clobber?
So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.
2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 3034, Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered. We also saw women being clobbered by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground.
Most of the job of the UNIX Oracle DBA is keeping the database running, and it does not come as a surprise when they see how easy it is to clobber a server. The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack[…].
It is therefore clear that the system itself must be truly "clobber proof"; that is, no user may be capable of changing anyone else's program or tying up the system in any way that would disrupt normal service to other users.
In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to "clobber" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.
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Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.
The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.
These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the debug() function for SexyWidgets clobbers the developer′s debug() function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently clobber the earlier function definition.
If you create your own mood instance attribute without being aware of the name clash, you will clobber the mood attribute used by the methods inherited from Dog.
Near-synonyms: clobbering, clubbing, thumping
He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women^([sic]) was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]
W'y, they call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marchin' clobber / With the— / (Chorus) Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot! loot! loot!
Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
I was thinkin' of the widow while I gets me clobber on— / Like a feller will start thinkin' of the times that's past an' gone.
"Now just you put on that there clobber, chum," he said, stepping back.
I went to one in Woolwich, south-east London, which is one of the first stores to welcome the Pep&Co range, to road test the new uber-cheap clobber for myself.
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