Afterclap

Quick meaning: Afterclap is a noun meaning The consequence (often, but not always, adverse) of an action or event.

Meaning

The consequence (often, but not always, adverse) of an action or event.

More Meanings

1. A phenomenon occurring after a similar earlier one; a later manifestation of something.
2. A sound that follows another, especially a loud noise, such as thunder.
3. (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Urethral discharge as a symptom of gonorrhea.
4. A symptom of an illness, especially one that appears after the initial onset; an illness or symptom caused by exposure to a substance, an injury, etc.
5. (archaic) An additional adverse event that occurs unexpectedly after an earlier one was thought to be over and done with.
6. (archaic) An unfavourable turn of events following a favourable situation; an eventuality for which one ought to be prepared.
7. (obsolete) A change or attempted change to an agreement after it has been entered into; an additional charge (especially one over and above the previously agreed-upon price).

Example Sentences

To spare a little for an after clappe Were not improuidence.

What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps!

AFTERCLAPS, unpleasant things coming after affairs which were supposed ended.

Strange to say, the gale, after easing to a mild breeze, recrudesced in a sort of afterclap.

Word Forms

• afterclaps
• after-clap

Synonyms for afterclap

Depending on context, synonyms include calamity, disaster, peril, reversal, setback, outcome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include after-clap, anticlimax, afterhaps, aftermath, afterevent, afterdischarge.

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