Associations to the word «Chap»

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Wiktionary

CHAP, noun. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.

CHAP, noun. (UK) (dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

CHAP, noun. (Southern US) A child.

CHAP, verb. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

CHAP, verb. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

CHAP, verb. (Scotland) (northern England) To strike, knock.

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

CHAP, noun. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

CHAP, noun. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

CHAP, noun. (archaic) The jaw (often in plural).

CHAP, noun. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Dictionary definition

CHAP, 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".

CHAP, noun. A long narrow depression in a surface.

CHAP, noun. A crack in a lip caused usually by cold.

CHAP, 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.

CHAP, verb. Crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.