A beating or forceful striking; a decisive defeat or loss.
From the verb clobber plus the suffix -ing (forming nouns of actions). Clobber itself emerged in American English, possibly from German kloppe or related to club.
When a sports team loses 50-0, they got a 'clobbering'—this word captures both the violence of the action and the complete humiliation of a total defeat!
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