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chaps

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chaps  (chps, shps)
pl.n.
Heavy leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by ranch hands to protect their legs.
[Short for American Spanish chaparreras, from Spanish chaparro, chaparral; see chaparral.]
chaps
Noun, pl
leather leggings without a seat, worn by cowboys [shortened from Spanish chaparejos]


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And then, chaps will read that two good fellows, Kayerts and Carlier, were the first civilized men to live in this very spot
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What did they do, all the chaps I knew, the chaps in the clubs with whom I'd been cheek by jowl for heaven knows how long?
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But though you are likely, with the blessing, to recover, there is laa for him yet; and if you will employ lawyer Small, I darest be sworn he'll make the fellow fly the country for him; though perhaps he'll have fled the country before; for it is here to-day and gone to-morrow with such chaps.
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