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afterclap
CIDE DICTIONARY
afterclap, n.
An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
afterclap
Disappointment
N disappointment, blighted hope, balk, blow, anticlimax, slip 'twixt cup and lip, nonfulfillment of one's hopes, sad disappointment, bitter disappointment, trick of fortune, afterclap, false expectation, vain expectation, miscalculation, fool's paradise, much cry and little wool, disappointed, disconcerted, aghast, disgruntled, out of one's reckoning, the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse, parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus, diis aliter visum, the bubble burst, one's countenance falling.For further exploring for "afterclap" in Webster Dictionary Online