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after-clap en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of afterclap.
   alt of afterclap
   • What he loses by Venus he thinks to recover by Mercury, but catches his cure as an after-clap, that commonly proves the worse disease of the two. 1630–1680 (date of composition), 1759 (date of publication), Samuel Butler, Characters
   • Sir:—I have long feared that by our continually worrying the ministry here with successive after-clap demands for more and more money, we should at length tire out their patience. 1782, letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 January, 1782, published in The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: volume VII (John Bigelow, editor; →ISBN) in 2008

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