A chap is a guy or a fellow a boy or man who's a friend, acquaintance, or a friendly stranger. You might ask a chap on the bus if the seat beside him is free.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Noun
(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
Noun
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
Noun
a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there''s a fellow at the door"; "he''s a likable cuss"
Noun
a long narrow depression in a surface
Verb
crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather"
v. t.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause
the skin of to crack or become rough.
v. t.
To strike; to beat.
v. i.
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands
chap.
v. i.
To strike; to knock; to rap.
n.
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or
in the skin.
n.
A division; a breach, as in a party.
n.
A blow; a rap.
n.
One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly
in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
n.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
n.
A buyer; a chapman.
n.
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
v. i.
To bargain; to buy.
Chap
Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.2.
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Many clefts and chaps in our council board.3.
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His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.2.
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If you want to sell, here is your chap.2.
Chap
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
To crack or open in slits;
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
A buyer; a chapman.
To bargain; to buy.
Usage Examples
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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