cloop

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.

At the corner of Dover Street there lay a heap of mud and street sweepings, and as we drew up just opposite, blocked by an opposing tide of carriages in Piccadilly, a small, very dapper little gentleman in dress-clothes stepped into the middle of this muck-heap, with the result that one of his dress-pumps was drawn off his unfortunate foot with a ‘cloop’ and stuck there.

A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

[…] 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.

He can imitate […] any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, &c.

A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

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.

The stream, black and sluggish, scarce appeared to move; the only sound you heard was the faint cloop of the water that the boat in its passage sent washing against the hollowed banks; […]

A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

Holonym: clip-clop

What is with us mainly a harsh, metallic shriek, a grind of trolley wheels upon trolley tracks, and a wild battering of their polygonized circles upon the rails, is in London the dull, tormented roar of the omnibuses and the incessant cloop-cloop of the cab-horses' hoofs.

To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1 sense 1).

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.

Not even by the lightning flashes could Peter see down the corridor into which the creek thus turned, and ran, and clooped.

A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.

He had resolved not to segue into the jig he used to do in the "cloops" because his singing was the issue here.

This may be a deliberate tie-in to what Gene [Kelly]'s brother Fred [Norbert Kelly] did when they played the "cloops" as teenagers.