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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



... is a reply, seems not to have been preserved. The Queen's letter, having been shown to Lord John Russell and copied by him, has hitherto been supposed to be a letter from Lord Melbourne to Lord John Russell. See Walpole's Russell, vol. i., chap. xiii.] ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... just an ordinary roustabout chap," grunted Hepton, disgustedly. "I had no orders to follow him, so I didn't take ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock
... no great speaker, but I can tell you plain how I come to be where I am. I was a strongish, rough young chap, and thought about nothing but games. I would fight, play cards, and a lot of more things that we don't want to talk about here. When I married, I drank and thought of nothing but my own self. Once I took ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman
... witness; and when it was ultimately decided who DID see the departed last, and exchanged the last words with them, the lucky parties took upon themselves a sort of sacred importance, and were gaped at and envied by all the rest. One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... would not be seen by his wife; but retired into the wilderness and fixed his tent there, and fasted forty days and forty nights, saying to himself, 'I will not go down to eat or drink till the Lord my God shall look down upon me; but prayer shall be my meat and drink.'" (Protevangelion, chap. i.) ...
— Giotto and his works in Padua • John Ruskin


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