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Chap   /tʃæp/   Listen
Chap

noun
1.
A boy or man.  Synonyms: blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad.  "There's a fellow at the door" , "He's a likable cuss" , "He's a good bloke"
2.
A long narrow depression in a surface.  Synonyms: crack, cranny, crevice, fissure.
3.
A crack in a lip caused usually by cold.
4.
(usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs.
verb
(past & past part. chapped; pres. part. chapping)
1.
Crack due to dehydration.





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"Chap" Quotes from Famous Books



... you had better tell that to the marines. I've seen too much of the world to have a country chap stuff me, now ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon
... Bellows. "You are a great chap, Pokey—you, with your poetry. I hope Tom isn't going to be affected by the lessons you teach. The idea of saying that a man is the greatest man in the world because he does what no one else has done! I guess nobody's never eaten ...
— Andiron Tales • John Kendrick Bangs
... to showing Gip tricks, odd tricks, and still odder the way they were done. He explained them, he turned them inside out, and there was the dear little chap nodding his busy bit of a head in the ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... disheartened and fatigued by the nocturnal sally, did not make so much resistance as was expected. Liege was taken and miserably pillaged, without regard to sex or age, things sacred or things profane. These particulars are fully related by Comines in his Memoires, liv. ii, chap. 11, 12, 13, and do not differ much from the account of the same events given in the ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... had walked far that Huling was an amiable and likable chap. As the captain of the Salisbury nine, he certainly had no reason to be agreeable to the Morristown "ringer," even though Wayne did happen to be a ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey


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