chap
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1. chap - Noun
2. chap - Verb
3. Chap - Proper noun
Meaning
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
To strike; to beat.
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
To strike; to knock; to rap.
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
A division; a breach, as in a party.
A blow; a rap.
One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
A buyer; a chapman.
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
To bargain; to buy.
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The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.