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chap ¹  (chp)

v. chapped, chap·ping, chaps

v.tr.

To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure: The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.

v.intr.

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.

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[Middle English chappen.]

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chap

Noun

Informal a man or boy [from Old English cēapman pedlar]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	chap - a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" bloke, fella, fellow, lad, blighter, gent, feller, cuss male person, male - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies dog - informal term for a man; "you lucky dog"
	2.	chap - a long narrow depression in a surface cranny, crevice, fissure, crack imprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
	3.	chap - a crack in a lip caused usually by cold crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow opening
	4.	chap - (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 leg covering, legging, leging - a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
Verb	1.	chap - crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather" crack - break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"

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chap

noun (Informal) fellow, man, person, individual, type, sort, customer (informal) character, guy (informal) bloke Brit. (informal) cove (slang) dude U.S., Canad. (informal)

Translations

chap [tʃæp] n (BRIT) (col) (= man); tío, tipo;

old chap → amigo (mío)

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chap [tʃæp] n (Brit) (inf) (= man); type m (= term of address);

old chap → mon vieux vt [+ skin] → gercer, crevasser

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chap [tʃæp] (Brit) (inf) n → Kerl m, Typ m;

old chap → alter Knabe or Junge

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chap [tʃæp] n (BRIT ) (col) (= man); tipo

vt [+ skin] → screpolare;

old chap → vecchio mio