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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap. Alexander Suvorov

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!" P. G. Wodehouse

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. Evelyn Waugh

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. Oscar Wilde

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. Damon Runyon

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. Errol Flynn

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