chap

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/t͡ʃæp/

noun 9verb 3name 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

clever, decent, good, jolly, lucky, nice, pleasant

My uncle is a decent chap who always helps his neighbours with their garden.

good-looking, handsome | young | old

poor

That poor chap lost his job last month and has been struggling ever since.

ordinary

PHRASES

not (such) a bad chap

My new colleague seemed difficult at first, but he's really not a bad chap.

sort of chap

My uncle is the cheerful sort of chap who always makes people laugh at parties.

Definitions

noun

A man, a fellow.

Who’s that chap over there?

“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”

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.

A child.

verb

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.

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.

To strike, knock.

And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.

The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]

noun

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

A division; a breach, as in a party.

Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

A blow; a rap.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a boy or man

noun — a long narrow depression in a surface

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Who’s that chap over there?

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“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”

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A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

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Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

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whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.

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And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, chap is marked as obsolete, archaic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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