Clobber vs Gear - What's the difference?
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(slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
* 1954 , , The Blackboard Jungle , 1984,
* 2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) ,
* 2002 , Donald K. Burleson, Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook ,
(computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
* 1999 , Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency ,
* 2004 , John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies ,
* 2007 , Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security ,
(UK, Australia, slang) Clothing.
* 1892 , , Loot'', in ''Barrack-Room Ballads ,
* 1899 , ,
* 1919 , , Red Robin'', in ''Jim of The Hills ,
(UK, slang) Equipment.
(uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Clothing; garments.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
(countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
(countable) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque
(slang) recreational drugs
* 2003 , Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
(uncountable, archaic) stuff.
* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
* Spenser
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
* Latimer
(engineering) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
(engineering) To be in, or come into, gear.
to dress; to put gear on; to harness.
Clobber is a related term of gear.
As a verb clobber
is (slang) to hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.As a noun clobber
is (uk|australia|slang) clothing.As a proper noun gear is
feb (february).clobber
English
Etymology 1
British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.Verb
(en verb)page 201,
- 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.
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.
page 395,
- 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.
page 74,
- 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.
page 314,
- The
cpcommand does one thing as it clobbers a file;mvandlndo another.
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- These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the
debug()function for SexyWidgets clobbers' the developer?sdebug()function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently ' clobber the earlier function definition.
Etymology 2
British slang from 19th Century.Noun
(en noun)Gutenberg eBook #2819,
- 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!
Gutenberg eBook #3418,
- Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931,
- 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.
References
* * The Dinkum Dictionary *Anagrams
*gear
English
Noun
(wikipedia gear)- Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .
- (Chaucer)
- Homely gear and common ware.
- Have you got any gear ? Dominic, have you got any acid?
- "When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose."
- Thus go they both together to their gear .
- (Wright)
- That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.
