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noun ( used with a plural verb )
a pair of joined leather leggings, often widely flared, worn over trousers, especially by cowboys, as protection against burs, rope burns, etc., while on horseback.
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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, especially in the skin.
5.
Scot. a knock; rap.
Related forms
un·chapped, adjective
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Chaps
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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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chap1 (tʃæp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb , chaps, chapping, chapped | |
| 1. | (of the skin) to make or become raw and cracked, esp by exposure to cold |
| 2. | (Scot) (of a clock) to strike (the hour) |
| 3. | (Scot) to knock (at a door, window, etc) |
| —n | |
| 4. | (usually plural) a cracked or sore patch on the skin caused by chapping |
| 5. | (Scot) a knock |
| [C14: probably of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch, German kappen to chop off] | |
| chap2 (tʃæp) | |
| —n | |
| informal a man or boy; fellow | |
| [C16 (in the sense: buyer): shortened from | |
| chap3 (tʃɒp, tʃæp) | |
| —n | |
| a less common word for chop | |
| chaps (tʃæps, ʃæps) | |
| —pl n | |
| chaparejos, Also called: chaparajos leather overalls without a seat, worn by cowboys | |
| [C19: shortened from | |
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Word Origin & History
chap
1577, "customer," short for obsolete chapman (see cheap). Colloquial sense of "lad, fellow" is first attested 1716 (cf. slang tough customer).
chap
"to crack," early 15c., chappen, variant of choppen (see chop). The noun meaning "fissure in the skin" is from late 14c.
chaps
1844, Amer.Eng., short for chaparejos, from Mexican Sp. chaparreras, worn to protect from chaparro (see chaparral).
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Slang Dictionary
chap definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
On the page, the two chaps both talk as if they were soda syphons, gushing and driveling by turns.
The chaps he liked best, however, were the tough ones.
The wanderer finds remote ranches and cowboys in hats and chaps instead of crusty fish camps and shirtless fishermen in sandals.
Notwithstanding the frost-touch the hardy little chaps maintain themselves in all their bloom.
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