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Chapped

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chap

1  [chap] verb, chapped, chap⋅ping, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to crack, roughen, and redden (the skin): The windy, cold weather chapped her lips.
2. to cause (the ground, wood, etc.) to split, crack, or open in clefts: The summer heat and drought chapped the riverbank.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become chapped.
–noun
4. a fissure or crack, esp. in the skin.
5. Scot. a knock; rap.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME chappen; c. D kappen to cut; akin to chip 1
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chap 1   (chāp)   
v.   chapped, chap·ping, chaps

v.   tr.
To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure: The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.
v.   intr.
To split or become rough and sore: skin that chaps easily in winter.
n.  A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.

[Middle English chappen.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
chap

  1. tv.
    to anger or annoy someone. (See also chapped.) : That whole business really chapped me.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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chapped

  1. mod.
    angry; annoyed. : I was chapped. There was no way to get around it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

chap  (n.)
1577, "customer," short for obsolete chapman (see cheap). Colloquial sense of "lad, fellow" is first attested 1716 (cf. slang tough customer).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2chap
Function: noun
: a crack in or a sore roughening of the skin caused by exposure to wind or cold
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

chapped (chāpt)
adj.
Having or relating to skin that is dry, scaly, and fissured, owing to excessive evaporation of moisture from the skin surface.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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