Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man or boy; a fellow.
- intransitive verb To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure.
- intransitive verb To split or become rough and sore.
- noun A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to cleave, split, crack, or break in clefts: used of the effect of extreme cold followed by heat on exposed parts of the body, as the hands and lips, and sometimes of similar effects produced in any way on the surface of the earth, wood, etc. Also
chop . - To strike, especially with a hammer or the like; beat.
- To crack; open in slits, clefts, or fissures: as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. Also
chop . - To knock, as at a door; strike, as a clock.
- noun A fissure, cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth or in the hands or feet: also used figuratively. Also
chop . - noun A stroke of any kind; a blow; a knock; especially, a tap or rap, as on a door, to draw attention. Also
chaup . - To choose; choose definitely; select and claim: as, I chap this.
- To fix definitely; accept and agree to as binding; hold to (a proposal, or the terms of a bargain): as, I chaps that; I chap (or chaps) you.
- To buy or sell; trade: a variant of
chop and cheap - An abbreviation of
chapter . - noun The act of picking and choosing; selection: as, ‘chap and choice.’ See
chap 5, transitive verb - noun An abbreviation of chaplain.
- noun The upper or lower part of the mouth; the jaw: commonly in the plural.
- noun A jaw of a vise or clamp.
- noun plural The mouth or entrance of a channel: as, the chops of the English channel.
- noun A buyer; a chapman.
- noun A fellow; a man or a boy: used familiarly, like
fellow , and usually with a qualifying adjective, old, young, little, poor, etc., and loosely, much as the word fellow is.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To crack or open in slits.
- intransitive verb Scot. To strike; to knock; to rap.
- noun One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
- noun One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
- transitive verb To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- transitive verb Scot. To strike; to beat.
- intransitive verb obsolete To bargain; to buy.
- noun A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- noun obsolete A division; a breach, as in a party.
- noun Scot. A blow; a rap.
- noun obsolete A buyer; a chapman.
- noun colloq. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
man , afellow . - noun UK, dialectal A customer, a buyer.
- noun southern US A
child . - noun archaic The jaw (often in plural).
- verb intransitive Of the skin, to
split orflake due to cold weather or dryness. - verb Scotland To
strike ,knock . - noun A
cleft ,crack , orchink , as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. - noun obsolete A
division ; abreach , as in aparty . - noun Scotland A
blow ; arap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy or man
- 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 long narrow depression in a surface
- verb crack due to dehydration
- noun a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I wouldn't know if this chap is a waste of space or not N but I do agree with saving the rainforests.
Norman Baker Newmania 2007
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I don ` t know who the chap is doing the review of MP ` s expenses, or what his instructions have been, but I don ` t like it.
McNulty Escapes With ‘A Talking To’ Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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And then you hear the chap is no longer with us, as if the foreground were a busy harbor and out at sea a ship was foundering, comically unattended as it sunk and perished forever.
If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing 2010
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After listening to a video in which a narrow, scholarly conclusion was advocated as a universal key to Scripture, I suggested to the Colombians watching it with me that the learned chap from the Infallible USA was actually not saying anything very meaningful or useful.
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However, I am told by my daughters that this David Tennant chap is rather good, and as one of them is studying Hamlet at school I conquered my fear of hubris about the future and my aversion to Barty Crouch, Jr, and booked the darn things.
Culture Maxine 2009
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So the analogy of "taking $10 from the poor chap" is too much, because it carries the moral loading of losing something that was their rightful property, while it's not at all clear that we should or do carry a moral right to dump however much CO2 (or whatever) into the atmosphere as suits us with no thought to the potential consequences for future generations.
What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For example, one chap is scrabbling around trying to make sense of station adjustments.
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To paraphrase Fred G. Sanford: This severe chap is as funny as a train wreck.
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I'm assuming as it's called 'Wireless' the chap is writing for a radio show?
Brum Brum! Roger Langridge 2008
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Rumours abound that this chap is being lined up to be the new Dr. Who.
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