Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
3. (Southern US) A child.
4. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
5. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
6. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
7. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
8. (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.”

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

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

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When Should You Use Chap?

Use chap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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