Chap

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure: The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.
  • verb-intransitive. To split or become rough and sore: skin that chaps easily in winter.
  • n. A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.
  • n. Informal A man or boy; a fellow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A man, a fellow.
  • n. A customer, a buyer.
  • n. A child.
  • v. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  • v. To strike, knock.
  • n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  • n. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  • n. A blow; a rap.
  • n. The jaw (often in plural).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  • v. To strike; to beat.
  • verb-intransitive. To crack or open in slits.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike; to knock; to rap.
  • n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  • n. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  • n. A blow; a rap.
  • n. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
  • n. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
  • n. A buyer; a chapman.
  • n. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
  • verb-intransitive. To bargain; to buy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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 cheap
  • To 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 verb
  • n. An abbreviation of chaplain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a boy or man
  • n. (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
  • n. a long narrow depression in a surface
  • v. crack due to dehydration
  • n. a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
  • Verb Form
    chapped    chapping    chaps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    leging    leg covering    legging    imprint    impression    depression    crack    scissure    crevice    fissure   
    Cross Reference
    chaps   
    Variant
    chapped    chapping   
    Form
    chappo    chappie    chapped    chapstick   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    strike    beat    knock    rap    division    blow    buyer    chapman    youth    fellow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    App    Capp    Jap    Lapp    Papp    Trapp    Yap    app    cap    clap   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lad    fellow    guy    youngster    folk    one    companion    maid    sailor    creature