Clobber

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clobber

Usage: vt.

See Also: mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack

clobber: vt.

To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, and smash the stack.

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Source: clobber, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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