The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afterclap \Aft"er*clap`\, n.
An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable
happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unexpected subsequent event or repercussion. 2 Something happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. 3 A problem or danger that arises after a threat is supposed to have passed.
Usage examples of "afterclap".
The two women disappeared behind the afterclap, the canvas screen at the back of the wagon, and Sarah called for the servants to bring the copper hip bath and buckets of hot water from the cooking fire.
She scrambled through the afterclap of her own wagon and, within a short while, emerged again.
Suddenly she cast aside the book and rushed to the afterclap of the wagon.
Danae fell back, her whole body tingling with the afterclap of that scream.
This made Raymo a figure of respect among his fellow prisoners during the twenty months they would spend in the fortress of La Cabana listening to rifle reports from the moat, where the executions took place, each crisp volley followed by a precise echo, an afterclap, as the prisoners thought about the dog that lived in the moat, lapping up blood.