"after-clap" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "afterclap"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1630–1680 (date of composition), 1759 (date of publication), Samuel Butler, Characters",
          "text": "What he loses by Venus he thinks to recover by Mercury, but catches his cure as an after-clap, that commonly proves the worse disease of the two."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 January, 1782, published in The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: volume VII (John Bigelow, editor; →ISBN in 2008",
          "text": "Sir:—I have long feared that by our continually worrying the ministry here with successive after-clap demands for more and more money, we should at length tire out their patience."
        }
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        "Alternative form of afterclap"
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  "word": "after-clap"
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      "form": "after-claps",
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          "word": "afterclap"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1630–1680 (date of composition), 1759 (date of publication), Samuel Butler, Characters",
          "text": "What he loses by Venus he thinks to recover by Mercury, but catches his cure as an after-clap, that commonly proves the worse disease of the two."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 January, 1782, published in The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: volume VII (John Bigelow, editor; →ISBN in 2008",
          "text": "Sir:—I have long feared that by our continually worrying the ministry here with successive after-clap demands for more and more money, we should at length tire out their patience."
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of afterclap"
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  "word": "after-clap"
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