Cloop

Quick meaning: Cloop is a noun meaning A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

Meaning

A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
2. (informal) A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
3. (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

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• cloops
• clooping
• clooped

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