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Chap

//t͡ʃæp// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    A surname from Khmer.
Noun
  1. 1
    A man, a fellow.

    "Who’s that chap over there?"

  2. 2
    A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  3. 3
    The jaw. archaic, in-plural, often

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

  4. 4
    Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  5. 5
    (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs wordnet
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  1. 6
    A customer, a buyer. UK, dialectal

    "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."

  2. 7
    A division; a breach, as in a party. obsolete

    "Many clefts and chaps in our council board."

  3. 8
    One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
  4. 9
    a crack in a lip caused usually by cold wordnet
  5. 10
    A child. Southern-US
  6. 11
    A blow; a rap. Scotland
  7. 12
    a boy or man wordnet
  8. 13
    a long narrow depression in a surface wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. intransitive
  2. 2
    crack due to dehydration wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. transitive

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

  4. 4
    To strike, knock. Northern-England, Scotland

    "And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

Etymology 3

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

Etymology 4

From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).

Etymology 5

Shortening

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Khmer ឆាប (chaap).

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