'CHAP' definitions:
Definition of 'chap'
(from WordNet)
noun
A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]
noun
noun
A crack in a lip caused usually by cold
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
verb
Crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather"
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\ (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped (ch[a^]pt or ch[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] [See Chop to cut.]
- 1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. [1913 Webster]
- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\, v. i. [See Cheapen.] To bargain; to buy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\, v. i.
- 1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\, n. [From Chap, v. t. & i.]
- 1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board. --T. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\ (ch[o^]p), n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. K[aum]ft, D. ki[ae]ft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. Chops.]
- 1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. [1913 Webster]
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chap'
From: GCIDE
- Chap \Chap\ (ch[a^]p), n. [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. ki[ae]ft jaw, person, E. chap jaw.]
- 1. A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- If you want to sell, here is your chap. --Steele. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chap'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- Adamite,
- arroyo,
- bastard,
- being,
- bird,
- bloke,
- body,
- box canyon,
- boy,
- bozo,
- breach,
- break,
- buck,
- buddy,
- bugger,
- canyon,
- cat,
- cavity,
- character,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- cove,
- crack,
- cranny,
- creature,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- customer,
- cut,
- cwm,
- defile,
- dell,
- dike,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- duck,
- earthling,
- excavation,
- fault,
- feller,
- fellow,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gazebo,
- gee,
- geezer,
- gent,
- gentleman,
- gorge,
- groove,
- groundling,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- guy,
- hand,
- he,
- head,
- hole,
- homo,
- human,
- human being,
- incision,
- individual,
- jasper,
- joint,
- joker,
- kloof,
- lad,
- leak,
- life,
- living soul,
- man,
- moat,
- mortal,
- nose,
- notch,
- nullah,
- old boy,
- one,
- opening,
- party,
- pass,
- passage,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- single,
- slit,
- slot,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- split,
- stud,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- trench,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- worldling
Acronyms for 'chap'
From: V.E.R.A.
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