Usually means: Forcefully defeating or overwhelming someone.
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  1. clobbering: Merriam-Webster
  2. clobbering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clobbering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clobbering, clobbering: Wordnik
  5. clobbering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clobbering: Wiktionary
  7. clobbering: Dictionary.com
  8. clobbering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clobbering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. clobbering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clobbering: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (informal) A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
▸ adjective:  That clobbers.

Similar:
batter, thrash, lick, stuff, drub, baste, bat, belting, whipping, whopping, more...

Opposite:
spare, spareness, sparing, sparingly, gentle



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Similar:
batter, thrash, lick, stuff, drub, baste, bat, belting, whipping, whopping, more...

Opposite:
spare, spareness, sparing, sparingly, gentle



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