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afterclap
[ af-ter-klap, ahf- ]
noun
- an unexpected repercussion.
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Origin of afterclap1
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Afterclap, aft′ėr-klap, n. an unexpected event happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
It is the afterclap that keeps the people off the Gipsies, and secures for them a sort of toleration wherever they go.
And then the breakages, damages still chargeable; the probable afterclap?
This is a sort of afterclap you little expected, but I cannot possibly afford them at a cheaper rate.
Suddenly the hideous consequences of it all, the afterclap, sounded in their ears.
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