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after-clap

n. (alternative form of afterclap English)

Usage examples of "after-clap".

Lord, what an after-clap there would be if I was to do anything so ramshackle as to drive off to London with a chit of your ageā€”and nothing but a dashed bandbox between the pair of us!

He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.