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chap¹

  • /t͡ʃæp/

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.

noun chaps

  1. A man, a fellow. Who’s that chap over there?
  2. UK, dialectal A customer, a buyer. If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
  3. Southern US A child.

chap²

  • /t͡ʃæp/

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

verb chaps · chapping · chapped

  1. intransitive Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. transitive To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
  3. Northern England, Scotland To strike, knock. And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.

noun chaps

  1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  2. obsolete A division; a breach, as in a party. Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
  3. Scotland A blow; a rap.

chap³

  • /t͡ʃæp/

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).

noun chaps

  1. archaic, in plural, often The jaw. This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
  2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

chap⁴

  • /t͡ʃæp/

Rhymes with -æp

noun chaps

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”).chop

chap⁵

  • /t͡ʃæp/

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Shortening.

noun chaps

  1. Internet, abbreviation, clipping Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).chapter

CHAP⁶

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

Chap⁷

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Khmer ឆាប (chaap).

proper noun Chaps

  1. A surname from Khmer.

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