cloop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kluːp/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /klup/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Onomatopoeic.^[1][2][3]

cloop (plural cloops)

2. A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
   • 1872, [Mary Elizabeth] Braddon, “‘Then fell upon the House a sudden Gloom’”, in To the Bitter End , volume III, London: John Maxwell and Co. , →OCLC, page 90:

     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.

   • 1903, E F Benson, “January”, in The Book of Months, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 7:

     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.

   • 2023, Daniel Kraus, chapter 19, in They Set the Fire (The Teddies Saga; 3), New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, “Evidence” section:

     She began walking away from the open room, toward the teddies, her shoe heels going cloop, cloop.

   • 2015, Thane K. Pratt, Bruce M Beehler, “Magpielark Grallina cyanoleuca”, in Birds of New Guinea (Princeton Field Guides), 2nd edition, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 463:

     Solo songs are several repetitions of the same phrase, e.g., a liquid mellow cloop cloop cloop or peewit peewit peewit.

   2. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

      Coordinate term: pop

      • 1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W M Thackeray, “A Visit to Some Country Snobs”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, , published 1848, →OCLC, page 92:

        […] 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.

      • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “At Mrs. Ridley’s”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, , →OCLC, page 120:

        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.

      • 1861 January – 1862 August, W M Thackeray, “Treats of Dancing, Dining, Dying”, in The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; , volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , published 1862, →OCLC, page 107:

        One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks.

      • 1893 March 11, , “Champagne”, in The National Observer: A Record and Review, volume IX (New Series), number 225, London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.,  J. T. Field, , →OCLC, page 413, column 1:

        Scarce has the fish, bull-headed cod or blushing mullet, swum into our ken ere a cork leaps forth with a cloop of joy, and straightway, as on the approach of spring, the sap stirs and the buds of speech burst into life, and talk, reluctant and hidebound no more, bursts into many-coloured bloom.

      • 1910, J J Bell, “His Justice”, in Wullie McWattie’s Master, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Fleming H Revell Company, →OCLC, page 51:

        he bottle was handed to him. The point of the screw pierced the red wax and entered the cork. It was a solemn moment when the cork came out with a cloop.

      • 1965, W H Auden, “Thanksgiving for a Habitat. Tonight at Seven-thirty (for M. F. K. Fisher).”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC, page 31:

        en / and women who enjoy the cloop of corks, appreciate / dapatical fare, yet can see in swallowing / a sign act of reverence, / in speech a work of re-presenting / the true olamic silence.

      • 2017, Barbara Kastelin, “April 1967”, in When Snow Fell, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 32:

        Valentina clamped the Napoleon brandy bottle between her thighs amongst the floral skirt, and with a cloop the cork popped out.

   4. The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.

      Coordinate terms: gurgle, glug, sploosh, splash

      • 1892 September 1, Edward W Thomson, “Smoky Days. In Six Chapters—Chapter V. Imprisoned in the Cave.”, in The Youth’s Companion, New England edition, volume 65, number 35, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason & Co., →OCLC, page 431, column 1:

        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.

      • 1899, A W Clarke, chapter XX, in Jaspar Tristram , London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 209:

        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; […]

      • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 149:

        The water’s own noises, too, were more apparent than by day, its gurglings and ‘cloops’ more unexpected and near at hand; and constantly they started at what seemed a sudden clear call from an actual articulate voice.

      • 1912, S R Crockett, “The Land of Always Afternoon”, in The Moss Troopers, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 286:

        Again on sheltered stretches Stair could send a smooth, flat stone skipping from one side to the other of the still bay, which Patsy declared was no sort of sport because hers, though every bit as well thrown as Stair's, invariably plumped to the bottom with a little farewell "cloop" as soon as they encountered the water.

      • 2023, Vic Gent, “Snakes on a Drain”, in Nathan Walter, Rod Sturdy, editors, Lifelines: An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes and More …, 2nd edition, Luton, Bedfordshire: Nathan Walter & Rod Sturdy in association with Arthur H Stockwell, →ISBN:

        ‘Cloops’ and ‘splooshes’ across the river were close enough to soak me, bats skimming the surface of the river wafted my face with their vampire-cloak wings, and the occasional ‘thunk’ of a suicidal moth hitting the lamp sounded like a gun-shot.

   6. The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.

      Synonym: clop

      Holonym: clip-clop

      • 1905, W D Howells, “The Sights and Sounds of the Streets”, in London Films, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers , →OCLC, page 52:

        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.

      • 1909 May, “Z.S. Bien”, in The Brunonian, volume 43, number 8, Providence, R.I., →OCLC, page 384:

        The only sounds are the cloop-cloop of the horses' hoofs in the procession, the roar of the officers' carriages upon the stone streets, and the solemn voices of the imperial heralds, warning the people to make way for the procession.

      • 1912, Arthur Stanley Riggs, “Syracuse, the Pentapolis”, in Vistas in Sicily (The Blue Books of Travel), New York, N.Y.: McBride, Nast & Company, →OCLC, page 133:

        You will know soon enough when they are—cloop! cloop! cloop! go the hoofs under your windows long before you have thought of breakfast.

      • 1912 January, Cecil D. G. Franklin (“Cetic”), “One Chance Meeting Another”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XLVI (New Series), number 106, London: The Central Publishing Company, , →OCLC, section III, page 371, column 2:

        The cloop-cloop of the horse's hoofs on the road rang out musically in the frosty air, raising ringing, iron-sounding echoes, like blacksmith's sledges on an anvil.

cloop (third-person singular simple present cloops, present participle clooping, simple past and past participle clooped)

1. (intransitive) To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun sense 1).
   • 1872, [Mary Elizabeth] Braddon, “Mr. Walgrave indulges his Social Instincts”, in To the Bitter End , volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. , →OCLC, page 89:

     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.

     An adjective use.

   • 1896, Edward W Thomson, “Imprisoned in the Cave”, in Walter Gibbs, the Young Boss and Other Stories: A Book for Boys, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, , →OCLC, page 253:

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

   • 1900, Alfred Kinnear, “When Harcourt Led”, in Our House of Commons: Its Realities and Romance, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1901 (2nd edition, extended), →OCLC, page 190:

     He beat his breast and "clooped" his lips like any aborigine in the agony of "chop" deferred.

   • 1912, S R Crockett, “The Land of Always Afternoon”, in The Moss Troopers, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 286:

     Again on sheltered stretches Stair could send a smooth, flat stone skipping from one side to the other of the still bay, which Patsy declared was no sort of sport because hers, though every bit as well thrown as Stair's, invariably plumped to the bottom with a little farewell "cloop" as soon as they encountered the water. "You get all the best stones!" Patsy cried at last, vexed at her lack of success. Whereupon Stair handed over his ammunition to her, which "clooped" and sank as before.

   • 1915 June 19, Richard Washburn Child, “The Phœnix: Her Negatives”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 187, number 51, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 3:

     On Sunday she jumped off the roan three-year-old at eight o'clock, after she had ridden since six, and after the animal's tired hoofs had clooped over the pavement on Main Street down to the front of our Phirst Fotografer's studio.

   • 1981, Diana Norman, chapter 2, in King of the Last Days, London: Canelo Digital Publishing Limited, published 2019, →ISBN:

     On good days the rise was a sunny thicket of alders sheltering deer and foxes, surrounded by marshland which clicked and clooped with waders and amphibia, where pelicans sailed in to land like full-rigged galleons.

   • 1986, Mary Brown, “The Gathering: One; The Unicorn and the Prince”, in The Unlikely Ones (Pigs Don’t Fly; 1), London: Century, →ISBN, page 5:

     silver fish clooped a lazy arc downstream, not really caring that the mayfly were out of reach; […]

Blend of club +‎ coop.

cloop (plural cloops)

1. (informal) A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
   • 1999, Alvin Yudkoff, “1940: New York”, in Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams, New York, N.Y.: Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 77:

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

   • 2009, Earl J. Hess, Pratibha A. Dabholkar, “Everything but Dancing”, in Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 140:

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

   • 2020, Julianne Lindberg, “Gene Kelly: Tough, Charming, Working Class”, in Pal Joey: The History of a Heel, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Chez Joey: The World of Pal Joey), chapter 6 (Joey Dances), page 143:

     Kelly wasn't a singer, but a talented dancer who had also spent many hours in vaudeville houses and after-hours "cloops," learning tap steps from the great vaudevillians and street dancers in order to bring these steps back to his students at the Kelly family dance studio.

Blend of c(ompressed) +‎ loop.

cloop (uncountable)

1. (computing) A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
   • 2005 April, Daniel Barlow, “Building Your Own Live CD”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number 132, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, column 1:

     The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device.

   • 2006 November, Christopher Negus, “Using the Cloop Driver”, in Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables (Negus Live Linux Series), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Looking Inside Live CD Components), “Understanding File Systems for Live CDs” section, page 156:

     Using cloop technology, you can more than double the amount of software and data you can get on a live CD.

   • 2007 August, Robert Shingledecker, John Andrews, Christopher Negus, “Using a New Kernel for DSL”, in The Official Damn Small Linux Book: The Tiny Adaptable Linux That Runs on Anything (Negus Live Linux Series), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 11 (Setting Up a Full Remastering Environment), “Full Remastering” section, page 239:

     Load a MyDSL extension (xchat.uci) to check that the cloop driver is working.

• cloop on WikipediaWikipedia (“compression technology for Linux files”).
• “cloop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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