chap
Other forms: chaps; chapped; chapping
A chap is a guy or a fellow — a boy or man who's a friend, acquaintance, or a friendly stranger. You might ask a chap on the bus if the seat beside him is free.
You can refer to any male person as a chap, and you can also address him that way: "Hello there, old chap! I haven't seen you in ages!" It's more common in Britain than the US, where the chap will know what you mean but might look at you oddly. Chaps also means a cowboy's leather pants, and when it's a verb chap means to become dry, cracked, and painful from wind or cold.
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a boy or man
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(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 legssynonyms: chapstype of:leg covering, legging, leginga garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle)
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crack due to dehydration“My lips chap in this dry weather”type of:crackbreak partially but keep its integrity
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a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
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a long narrow depression in a surface
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