To cause to cleave, split, crack, or break in clefts: used of the effect of extreme cold followed by heat on exposed parts of the body, as the hands and lips, and sometimes of similar effects produced in any way on the surface of the earth, wood, etc. Also chop.To strike, especially with a hammer or the like; beat.To crack; open in slits, clefts, or fissures: as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. Also chop.To knock, as at a door; strike, as a clock.n. A fissure, cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth or in the hands or feet: also used figuratively. Also chop.n. A stroke of any kind; a blow; a knock; especially, a tap or rap, as on a door, to draw attention. Also chaup.n. The upper or lower part of the mouth; the jaw: commonly in the plural.n. A jaw of a vise or clamp.n. plural The mouth or entrance of a channel: as, the chops of the English channel.n. A buyer; a chapman.n. A fellow; a man or a boy: used familiarly, like fellow, and usually with a qualifying adjective, old, young, little, poor, etc., and loosely, much as the word fellow is.To buy or sell; trade: a variant of chop and cheapTo choose; choose definitely; select and claim: as, I chap this.To fix definitely; accept and agree to as binding; hold to (a proposal, or the terms of a bargain): as, I chaps that; I chap (or chaps) you.An abbreviation of chapter.n. The act of picking and choosing; selection: as, ‘chap and choice.’ See chap5, transitive verbn. An abbreviation of chaplain.