Chap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /t͡ʃæp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chap is a noun meaning (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
Meaning
(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
More Meanings
- (Southern US) A child.
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
Example Sentences
Who’s that chap over there?
“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
Word Forms
- chaps
- chapping
- chapped
Synonyms for chap
Depending on context, synonyms include bloke, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chappy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fella, lad, fellow, gent, blighter, cuss.
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