Definitions for chap
tʃɒp, tʃæpchap

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, blokenoun

   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"

2. crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chapnoun

   a long narrow depression in a surface

3. chapnoun

   a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

4. chapverb

   (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

5. chapverb

   crack due to dehydration

   "My lips chap in this dry weather"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chapnoun

   a customer, a buyer

2. chapnoun

   a man or fellow

   Who's that chap over there?

3. chapverb

   Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

4. chapverb

   To strike, knock.

5. Etymology: Shortened from chapman in 16th century English.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chapnoun

   A cleft; an aperture; an opening; a gaping; a chink.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   What moisture the heat of the summer sucks out of the earth, it is repaid in the rains of the next winter; and what chaps are made in it, are filled up again. Thomas Burnet, Theory.

2. Chapnoun

   This is not often used, except by anatomists, in the singular. The upper or under part of a beast’s mouth.

   Froth fills his chaps, he sends a grunting sound,
   And part he churns, and part befoams the ground. Dryden.

   The nether chap in the male skeleton is half an inch broader than in the female, as being made to accommodate a bigger muscle for the motion of the teeth. Nehemiah Grew, Musæum.

3. To CHAPverb

   To break into hiatus, or gapings.

   Etymology: kappen, Dutch, to cut. This word seems originally the same with chop; nor were they probably distinguished at first, otherwise than by accident; but they have now a meaning something different, though referable to the same original sense.

   It also weakened more and more the arch of the earth, drying it immoderately, and chapping it in sundry places. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   Then would unbalanc’d heat licentious reign,
   Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Richard Blackmore.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chap

   A "chap" is a British term used informally to refer to a man or boy. It is equivalent to 'guy' or 'fellow' in American English. Additionally, in another context, "chap" can also refer to a crack, split, or fissure in something, such as skin chapped by cold or wind.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chapverb

   to cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough

2. Chapverb

   to strike; to beat

3. Chapverb

   to crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap

4. Chapverb

   to strike; to knock; to rap

5. Chapnoun

   a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin

6. Chapnoun

   a division; a breach, as in a party

7. Chapnoun

   a blow; a rap

8. Chapnoun

   one of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings

9. Chapnoun

   one of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc

10. Chapnoun

    a buyer; a chapman

11. Chapnoun

    a man or boy; a youth; a fellow

12. Chapverb

    to bargain; to buy

13. Etymology: [See Chop to cut.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chap

   Chap is an unincorporated community in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chap

   chap, v.i. to crack: to strike, of a clock, &c.: to knock at a door.—v.t. to fissure.—n. crack: an open fissure in the skin, caused by exposure to frost: a knock.—adj. Chap′less.—p.adj. Chapped, cracked, of a heavy soil in dry weather, or of the skin in frost: cut short.—adj. Chap′py. [M. E. chappen; cog. with Dut. and Ger. kappen.]

2. Chap

   chap, n. a fellow, originally a customer, from Chapman.—n. Chap′pie, a familiar diminutive.

3. Chap

   chap, n. generally pl. the jaws.—adj. Chap′fall′en, a variant of Chop-fallen (q.v.). [Northern Eng. and Scot. chafts—Scand., as Ice. kjaptr, the jaw.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chap

   A general term for a man of any age after boyhood; but it is not generally meant as a compliment.

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1. CHAP

   What does CHAP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CHAP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chap

   Originally short for “Chapman,” one who sold his wares at a chepe, or market.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CHAP

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chap is ranked #39659 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Chap surname appeared 554 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Chap.
   
   58.4% or 324 total occurrences were Asian.
   32.4% or 180 total occurrences were White.
   4.5% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Crack
   • Depression
   • Male

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'chap' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1301

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'chap' in Nouns Frequency: #1841

Anagrams for chap »

1. caph

How to pronounce chap?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say chap in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chap in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chap in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of chap in a Sentence

1. Tony Hadley:

   At first I thought, is it a hoax ? Is someone on a wind-up ? , i looked into it and realized that this chap had, I thought, won fairly and squarely.

2. Loni Anderson:

   He’s such a handsome chap, really, what a handsome man.

3. Brendan Lawlor:

   He's changed my life really -- ever since I signed, he's brought me some incredible endorsement deals and has really embraced disability golf, he's just a genuinely nice chap and he'd do anything to help you.

4. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer:

   I've seen it on the video, it was Jesse [ Lingard ] and Fred and the chap must be ashamed of himself, it's unacceptable and I hope he will not be watching any football any more.

5. Eric knight:

   There's something about honesty...A chap's got to be honest. Never forget it all thy entire life. And there's a funny thing about honesty...No two ways about it; there's only one way about it....(Father to son, Joe)

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chap
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chap
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=chap
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chap
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chap
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=chap
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=chap
9. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=chap
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html