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[chap] Pronunciation Key verb, chapped, chap·ping, noun
[chap] Pronunciation Key verb, chapped, chap·ping, noun –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
| 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. |
| 3. | to become chapped. |
| 4. | a fissure or crack, esp. in the skin. |
| 5. | Scot. a knock; rap. |
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[chap] Pronunciation Key
[chap] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Informal. a fellow; man or boy. |
| 2. | Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a baby or young child. |
| 3. | British Dialect. a customer. |
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| chap 1
(chāp) Pronunciation Key
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.] |
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| chap 2
(chāp) Pronunciation Key
n. Informal A man or boy; a fellow. [Short for chapman.] |
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chap (n.)
chap (n.)
1577, "customer," short for obsolete chapman (see cheap). Colloquial sense of "lad, fellow" is first attested 1716 (cf. slang tough customer).
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chap (v.)
chap (v.)
"to crack," c.1420, chappen, var. of choppen (see chop). The noun meaning "fissure in the skin" is from 1398.
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| chap | |
noun | |
| 1. | 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" |
| 2. | a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice] |
| 3. | a crack in a lip caused usually by cold |
| 4. | (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 |
verb | |
| 1. | crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather" |
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Chap\ (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped (ch[a^]pt or ch[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] [See Chop to cut.]1. 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. --Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly. 2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]
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Chap\, v. i. 1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. 2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]
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Chap\, n. [From Chap, v. t. & i.]1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. --T. Fuller. 3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]
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Chap\ (ch[o^]p), n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. K["a]ft, D. ki[ae]ft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. Chops.]1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. --Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. --Shak. 2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
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Chap\ (ch[a^]p), n. [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. ki[ae]ft jaw, person, E. chap jaw.]1. A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] If you want to sell, here is your chap. --Steele. 2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]
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Chap\, v. i. [See Cheapen.] To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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