The old English word "clobber" means a paste to conceal cracks in shoes, and the pity of the clobber decoration was that the enamels, having been burnt in, are to all intents and purposes irremovable.
The clobber decoration is not alone in enamel colours or gold, but even lacquer is used for the same purpose.
It was evident that we were being driven and so long as we went to their satisfaction they weren't going to clobber us.
It covered my hitting a girl in Ohio with my car, hard enough to clobber her.
Then we can clobber Terra back to the swamp, juggle the place into another ice age, put the details down in History, and hope that our remote progeny will be smarter than we.
Do you suppose Ellay intends to clobber us this time?
Reuben heard on all sides in tones of self-congratulation: "We'll clobber them tonight!
Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
Redbrook: you pack that clobber in the lady's portmanteau, and put it aboard the yacht for her.
I suggest to you, Brassbound, that the clobberbelongs to Lady Sis.
Next morning I got up about seven, and went home to change my clobber and put on the old clobber to work with the kipsy.
So I went into a place and see some clobber hanging up, so I thought to myself, I will have it and take the rattler home at once; it will pay all expense.
This time I looked to the clobber more closely, and I see it was the same as clergymen wear, so I left it where it was.
The next day I took the rattler to Forest Hill, and touched for (succeeded in getting) some wedge and a kipsy full of clobber (clothes).
I used to get a good many pieces about this time, so I used to clobber myself up and go to the concert.
But if his orders are to clobber us, then he wouldn't put it on the air.
That plane that tried to clobber us, and these others that have been trying to search us out, aren't really Reunited Nations craft.
Put yer clobber under yer bolster, likewise yer boots," was the last instruction of his new friend and "father.
