chap

Plural: chaps

Noun

• a boy or man
  • "that chap is your host"
• a long narrow depression in a surface
• a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
• (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
• A man, a fellow.
• A customer, a buyer.
• A child.
• A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
• A division; a breach, as in a party.
• A blow; a rap.
• The jaw.
• One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
• Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

Verb

Verb Forms: chapped, chapt, chapping, chaps

• To split, crack, or redden, especially from cold or dryness.
• crack due to dehydration
  • "My lips chap in this dry weather"
• Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
• To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
• To strike, knock.

Examples

• The dry spell on the Scrabble board made his word options CHAP and crack.
• Who’s that chap over there?

Synonyms

blighter, bloke, crack, cranny, crevice, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, fissure, gent, lad, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove, covey, dawg, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dude, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, guy, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye

Related Words

chap chye, chap lau chu, chaps, chop, kway chap

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