chap
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Is chap a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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What is the meaning of chap?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.Examples: "Who’s that chap over there?"; "“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”"; "A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well."Synonyms: bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy
2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.Examples: "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."UKdialectal
3. (Southern US) A child.Southern-US
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.Examples: "Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain."; "whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap."transitive
3. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.Examples: "And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock."; "The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]"Northern-EnglandScotland
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.Examples: "Many clefts and chaps in our council board."obsolete
2. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.Scotland
noun (English)
1. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.Examples: "This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!"; "His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood."; "He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps."archaicin-pluraloften
noun (English)
1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).Internetabbreviationalt-ofclipping
name (English)
1. (computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary