• IPA: /tʃæp/

chap (plural chaps)

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

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:man

   Who’s that chap over there?

2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

   • If you want to sell, here is your chap.

3. (Southern US) A child.

• French: bougre, mec, quidam
• German: Kerl, Typ
• Italian: tipo, tizio
• Portuguese: camarada
• Russian: мужи́к
• Spanish: tipo

chap (chaps, present participle chapping; past and past participle chapped)

1. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
2. (transitive) 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.

   • Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.

3. (Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:

     The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]

• Portuguese: rachar
• Russian: тре́скаться

• French: crevasser

chap (plural chaps)

1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
2. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

   • Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

3. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

chap (plural chaps)

1. (archaic, often, in the plural) The jaw.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest

     This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!

   • His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:

     He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.

2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

• chop

• Russian: че́люсть

chap (plural chaps)

1. (internet slang) Clipping of chapter#English|chapter (“division of a text”).

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