Definitions
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- noun A
bat (club ) with which someoneclueless but with a bad attitude is therefore (figuratively or in one's imagination)struck .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The following are science fiction book series whose label as science fiction embarrasses me, whose continuing popularity puzzles me, and whose fans I feel deserve a smack upside the head with a very large and nail-studded cluebat.
The Worst Science Fiction Series « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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I think you're still going to need a bigger cluebat to get through to them.
Hollywood Conservatives: The Not-So-Gentle Post Rogers 2008
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You don't want to hit with a cluebat for not knowing what anger is.
Fun with Fairy Tales Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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Should I get the cluebat to beat that into your head or will it just fall out like your brains at birth?
Think Progress » Pentagon Covering Up Tens of Thousands of U.S. Casualties In Official Reports 2005
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You don't want to hit with a cluebat for not knowing what anger is.
Archive 2007-12-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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I can't help noting that when Helen's husband Glenn Reynolds linked to that post about the bar-fightin' woman -- with its photo of a woman wielding a baseball bat -- he also linked to me and said "This cluebat is actually even scarier than this one."
Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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A cluebat for the Keystone Kops: No matter how DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano might spin it, the "system" is not "working" in any sense of either word.
No Illegal Alien Pilot Left Behind - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative 2010
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They need a good sharp whack upside the headbone with the ol 'cluebat!
RadioActive Chief 2010
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I'm going to have nightmares about Alan's cluebat tonight.
Wired Campus 2010
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A cluebat for the Keystone Kops: No matter how DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano might spin it, the "system" is not "working" in any sense of either word.
No Illegal Alien Pilot Left Behind - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative 2010
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