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[chap] 
verb, chapped, chap⋅ping, noun –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. |
chap
2 [chap] –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. |
chop
3 [chop] –noun
—Idioms| 1. | Usually, chops. the jaw. |
| 2. | chops,
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| 3. | an entranceway, as into a body of water. |
| 4. | Horology. either of two pieces clasping the end of the suspension spring of a pendulum. |
| 5. | bust one's chops, Slang. to exert oneself. |
| 6. | bust someone's chops, Slang. to annoy with nagging or criticism: Stop busting my chops—I'll get the job done. |
| 7. | lick one's chops, to await with pleasure; anticipate; relish: He was already licking his chops over the expected inheritance. |
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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.] |
| chap 2 (chāp) n. Informal A man or boy; a fellow. [Short for chapman.] |
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Chap
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.]Chap
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.]Chap
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.]Chap
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.Chap
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.]Chap
Chap\, v. i. [See Cheapen.] To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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Language Translation for : chap
Spanish:
tío, tipo,
German:
der Kerl,
Japanese:
やつ
chap (n.)
1577, "customer," short for obsolete chapman (see cheap). Colloquial sense of "lad, fellow" is first attested 1716 (cf. slang tough customer).
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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Main Entry: 1chap
Pronunciation: 'chap
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: chapped; chap·ping
intransitive senses
: to crack or open in slits
: to cause to open in slits or cracks <chapped lips>
Main Entry: 2chap
Function: noun
: a crack in or a sore roughening of the skin caused by exposure to wind or cold
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