aftermath

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) , or farmers' jargon: A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
  2. Noun.  Hence; that which happens after, that which follows. Has a strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

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