After-Clap (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

After-Clap

A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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