OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 32532

clobber

/ˈklɒb.ə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apalear • aporrear • arruinar • zurrar
To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
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 awa…
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.
sobrellevar
To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
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.
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…