chap
IPA: tʃˈæp
noun
- (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- (Southern US) A child.
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
- (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- A surname from Khmer.
- (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). [(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.]
- (computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
verb
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
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Examples of "chap" in Sentences
- An ordinary chap living in ales.
- Chap boots are a form of footwear.
- Colette is a thoroughly nice chap.
- Candidate seems to be a nice chap.
- Shoulders to the grindstone, chaps
- And it couldn't be for a finer chap.
- Be a good chap and take a look at it.
- Neo222 was a jolly fine chap, a jolly fine chap was he.
- Freddie is an amiable chap, though not the sharpest of minds.
- I simply wished to defend the chap from an unprovoked attack.