different between strap vs clobber

English

Alternative forms

• strop, strope

Etymology

From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stropp, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (stróphos, “rope”), from ?????? (stréph?, “to twist”). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

strap (countable and uncountable, plural straps)

1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
   1. A strap worn on the shoulder.
2. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
3. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
4. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
5. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
   1. (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
   2. (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
6. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
7. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
8. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
9. (slang, uncountable, archaic) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
10. (journalism) Synonym of strapline
11. (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (sutorappu)

Translations

Verb

strap (third-person singular simple present straps, present participle strapping, simple past and past participle strapped)

1. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
2. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
3. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop

Derived terms

• strap on a pair
• strap-on

Translations

Anagrams

• TRAPS, parts, prats, rapts, sprat, tarps, traps

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strap/

Verb

strap

1. second-person singular imperative of strapi?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl?b.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kl?b.?/
• Rhymes: -?b?(?)
• Hyphenation: clob?ber

Etymology 1

British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.

Verb

clobber (third-person singular simple present clobbers, present participle clobbering, simple past and past participle clobbered)

1. (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
   • 1954, Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, 1984, 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.

   • 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.

   • The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack […] .

2. (transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
   • 1999, Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency, 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.

   • 2004, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies, page 314,

     The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.

   • 2007, Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security, unnumbered page,

     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.

Noun

clobber (uncountable)

1. (slang) A thumping or beating.
   • 2014, Philippa Ballantine, Weather Child

     He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]

2. A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.

Translations

Etymology 2

British slang from 19th century.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

clobber (uncountable)

1. (Australia, Britain, slang) Clothing; clothes.
   • 1919, C. J. Dennis, Red Robin, in Jim of The Hills, 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.
2. (Britain, slang) Equipment.

Etymology 3

Noun

clobber (uncountable)

1. A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clobber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• The Dinkum Dictionary
• “The Jargon File”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[3], (Please provide a date or year)

Anagrams

• Cobbler, cobbler