afterclap

An additional adverse event that occurs unexpectedly after an earlier one was thought to be over and done with.

[…] immediatly after the Vniuersall deluge, Nimrod […] perswaded the people to secure themselues from the like after-claps, by building some stupendious Edifice, which might resist the fury of a second deluge.

What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps!

An unfavourable turn of events following a favourable situation; an eventuality for which one ought to be prepared.

[…] as cookes among all their sawces doo mind nothing lesse than sobernesse: so these in the abundance of their ioies, thought nothing of afterclaps […]

To spare a little for an after clappe Were not improuidence.

The consequence (often, but not always, adverse) of an action or event.

1753, uncredited translator, The School of Man, London: Lockyer Davis, 2nd ed., pp. 102-103, […] he loves Pleasure; but then, without any Afterclap; fain would he be gathering Roses, but he’s afraid of the Prickles.

1891, Grover Cleveland, letter to William Freeman Vilas in Allan Nevins (ed.), Letters of Grover Cleveland, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933, p. 244, My notion is that the Senatorial result in this State is the best that could have been attained. I am not sure about the after-clap, but I think quieter politics in this State will result.

A phenomenon occurring after a similar earlier one; a later manifestation of something.

Emerson spoke of the Mormons. Some one had said, “They impress the common people, through their imagination, by Bible-names and imagery.” “Yes,” he said, “it is an after-clap of Puritanism. […]”

1891, Elizabeth Gilbert Martin (translator), Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur-Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand, New York: Scribner, 1891, Chapter 4, p. 32, The drama of the Revolution is not French alone; it is European. It has its afterclap in every empire, in every kingdom, even to the most distant lands.

A sound that follows another, especially a loud noise, such as thunder.

[…] these Thunder-claps so dreadful before, that proceeded from the shock he gave its Enemy, were no more now but the dull Sound of those little After-claps, which denote the end of a Storm;

[…] the storm wore gradually away, now and then only a faint after-clap grumbled in the distance […]

A canvas curtain or tailboard at the rear of a covered wagon.

And now the “after-clap” of the wagon was hurriedly drawn aside, and three young faces were seen peeping forth.

1905, Reginald Fenton, A Peculiar People in a Pleasant Land, Girard, KS: The Pretoria Publishing Company, Chapter 7, p. 98, […] he felt for his gun, and began fumbling at the fastenings of the afterclap.