clobber n [phonetics unavailable]. Cp DINNEEN clábar 'filth, mire, mud.' Untidy state; sloppy or cluttered remains of some activity.
   1955 ENGLISH 33 ~ An untidy state of things. T 222-66 After such hearty meals your kitchen would really be in a reeraw and you'd have to turn to and clean up the clobber. 1968 KEATING 554 Sailors jumped into the hold to spear strays on long-handled fish forks and throw them back into the squirming mass of cod. When they had tidied up the 'clobber,' all hands stripped off the work gloves and threw them into the sea.

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