Unexpected events happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.--Todd's Johnson.
Although this is a genuine old English word, it is now seldom heard except in familiar conversation.
For the next morrow's meed they closely went,
For fear of afterclaps to prevent.
-- Spenser, Hub. Tale.
Let that man, who can be so far taken and transported with the present pleasing offers of a temptation, as to overlook those dreadful afterclaps which usually bring up the rear of it.
-- South, Sermons, VI.
She wyll thee graunt it liberally perhappes;
But for all that, beware of afterclaps.
-- Sir Thomas More.