Meaning

A slightly hollow, percussive sound..

Definitions by Sense

1. A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
2. (intransitive) To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
3. (informal) A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
4. (computing) A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.

Example Sentences

Yet no sooner was she departed than he sorely missed the clatter of her pattens, the cloop of her pails, the noise of her industrious broom sweeping assiduously in passages where there had been no footsteps to carry dirt.

At the corner of Dover Street there lay a heap of mud and street sweepings, and as we drew up just opposite, blocked by an opposing tide of carriages in Piccadilly, a small, very dapper little gentleman in dress-clothes stepped into the middle of this muck-heap, with the result that one of his dress-pumps was drawn off his unfortunate foot with a ‘cloop’ and stuck there.

She began walking away from the open room, toward the teddies, her shoe heels going cloop, cloop.

Solo songs are several repetitions of the same phrase, e.g., a liquid mellow cloop cloop cloop or peewit peewit peewit.

The young men brought up the rear, each with a basket, from which there came ever and anon a cool clooping noise, maddeningly suggestive of refreshing drinks imprisoned within the wicker.

Not even by the lightning flashes could Peter see down the corridor into which the creek thus turned, and ran, and clooped.

He beat his breast and "clooped" his lips like any aborigine in the agony of "chop" deferred.

Again on sheltered stretches Stair could send a smooth, flat stone skipping from one side to the other of the still bay, which Patsy declared was no sort of sport because hers, though every bit as well thrown as Stair's, invariably plumped to the bottom with a little farewell "cloop" as soon as they encountered the water. "You get all the best stones!" Patsy cried at last, vexed at her lack of success. Whereupon Stair handed over his ammunition to her, which "clooped" and sank as before.

Word Forms

• cloops
• clooping
• clooped

When Should You Use Cloop?

Use cloop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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