klop, noun

Forms:
Also klopje.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans (now klap), from Dutch klop, klopje blow, stroke (echoic).
obs.
Note:
Cf. general English klop or clop, ‘the sound of the impact of something solid on a hard surface’ (OED).
The thudding sound made by a bullet striking flesh.
1884 ‘E.V.C.’ Promised Land 17‘Klop,’ I heard the bullet strike, but not then knowing the merits of that lovely sound, thought it merely the ground I had fired into.
1893 Blackwood’s Mag. (U.K.) Sept. 444The crack was heard, again followed by the fatal ‘klop’.
1900 B. Mitford Aletta 107Bang!..The ‘klop’ made by the bullet as it rushed through the poor little beast — through ribs and heart — was audible to them there at upwards of four hundred yards.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 269Klopje,..The noise which a bullet makes when it finds its billet in the body of an animal is..spoken of as the klop of the bullet.
1914 W.C. Scully Lodges in Wilderness 92I knew well enough that the bullet had fetched him; I heard its ‘klop’ distinctly.
The thudding sound made by a bullet striking flesh.
Derivatives:
Hence klop  intransitive verb.
1900 B. Mitford Aletta 47‘That’s good!’ observed Colvin; I knew he’d got it, heard the bullet ‘klop’.
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klop, v.
kloof, nounn.klopjag, nounn.
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