cloop

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From compressed loop.

Noun

cloop (uncountable)

1. A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on-the-fly.
   • 2005, Linux Journal - Issues 129-134, page 54:

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

   • 2006, Chris Negus, Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables, page 156:

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

   • 2007, Robert Shingledecker, ‎John Andrews, ‎Christopher Negus, The Official Damn Small Linux Book, page 239:

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

Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia.

Noun

cloop (plural cloops)

1. A slightly hollow, percussive noise.
   • 1912, Edward Frederic Benson, The Book of Months and a Reaping, page 5:

     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, They Set the Fire:

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

   • 2015, Thane K. Pratt, ‎Bruce M. Beehler, ‎Bruce McP. Beehler, Birds of New Guinea, page 463:

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

   1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
      • 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:

        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.

      • 1910, John Joy Bell, Wullie McWattie's Master, page 51:

        It was a solemn moment when the cork came out with a cloop.

      • 1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] 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:

        [M]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.

      • 2016, Thomas Tylston Greg, Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker:

        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.

      • 2017, Barbara Kastelin, When Snow Fell, page 32:

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

   2. The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
      • 1896, Edward William Thomson, Smoky Days, page 81:

        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, Ashley Walrond Clarke, Jaspar Tristram, page 209:

        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, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

        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.

      • 2022, S. R. Crockett, Patsy:

        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, editor, Lifelines: An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes and More...:

        '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.

   3. The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
      • 1909, “Z.S. Bien”, in The Brunonian, volume 43, number 8, 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, Vistas in Sicily, 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, “One Chance Meeting Another”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 46, number 106, page 371:

        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.

      • 1913, Abraham Howry Espenshade, Essentials of Composition & Rhetoric, page 135:

        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 incessent cloop -'cloop of the cab-horses' hoofs.

Translations

sound

• Finnish: poksahdus (fi)

Verb

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

1. To make a cloop sound.
   • 1896, Edward William Thomson, Smoky Days, page 81:

     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, Our House of Commons, Its Realities and Romance, page 190:

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

   • 1916, Richard Washburn Child, Bodbank, page 338:

     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.

   • 2003, Mary Brown, Here There Be Dragonnes:

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

   • 2019, Diana Norman, King of the Last Days:

     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.

   • 2022, S. R. Crockett, Patsy:

     Whereupon Stair handedover his ammunition to her, which "clooped" and sank as before.

Etymology 3

Blend of club +‎ coop

Noun

cloop (plural cloops)

1. A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
   • 1999, Alvin Yudkoff ·, Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams, page 20:

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

   • 2009, Earl J. Hess, ‎Pratibha A. Dabholkar, Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece, page 140:

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

   • 2020, Julianne Lindberg, Pal Joey: The History of a Heel, page 143:

     Kelly wasn't a singer, but a talented dancer who had also spent many hours in vaudeville houase 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.

Anagrams

• colpo-