cloops

Noun (1)

cloop (plural cloops)

1. 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.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
   1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
      • […] 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.1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Visit to Some Country Snobs”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 92
   2. The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
      • 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.1892 September 1, Edward W[illiam] 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...
   3. The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
      • Holonym: clip-clop

Noun (2)

cloop (plural cloops)

1. (informal) 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.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

Noun (3)

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.
   • The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device.2005 April, Daniel Barlow, “Building Your Own Live CD”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number 132, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, column 1

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