Cloop
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
"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."
- 2 A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive. informal
"He had resolved not to segue into the jig he used to do in the "cloops" because his singing was the issue here."
- 3 A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly. uncountable
"The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device."
- 4 A slightly hollow, percussive sound.; The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
"[…] I prefer Sherry to Marsala when I can get it, and the latter was the wine of which I have no doubt I heard the "cloop" just before dinner."
- 5 A slightly hollow, percussive sound.; The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
"Out of this darkness as if from far away came a strange gurgling and washing of water, intermingled with a sound like cloop—cloop—cloop—such as water often makes when flowing a-whirl out of the bottom of a basin beneath a tap."
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- 6 A slightly hollow, percussive sound.; The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
"Holonym: clip-clop"
- 1 To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1 sense 1). intransitive
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Blend of club + coop.
Blend of c(ompressed) + loop.
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