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clobber [′kläb·ər] (computer science) To write new data and thereby erase good data in a file, or to otherwise damage the file so that it becomes useless.
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There are a number of variations on this theme--in one comic, Krazy Kat hangs a portrait of Ignatz Mouse on the wall; the portrait clobbers Krazy Kat with a brick; whereupon Officer Bull Pulp paints bars on the portrait. I have a feeling Julia would clobber me at Scrabble, but I don't mind. One of the things we learned while working with our high-volume clients is that very large outbound email campaigns can clobber a database server just from handling bounces, clickthroughs and unsubscribe requests. |
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