noun
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(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
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Who’s that chap over there?
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A customer, a buyer.
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A child.
noun
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A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
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A division; a breach, as in a party.
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A blow; a rap.
verb
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Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
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To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
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To strike, knock.
noun
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(often in the plural) The jaw.
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One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
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(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
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Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
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A section of a social or religious body.
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A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
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A decretal epistle.
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A location or compartment.
Examples of chaps in a Sentence
Their work was exemplary on several occasions, so I said "Come on chaps. Let's go to Paris for the weekend."
It licks its chaps from time to time.
The whole difficulty seems to arise from the long prevalent assumption that chaps.
Natural as the feeling against disintegration may be, the difficulties in the way of admitting the unity of chaps.
There is only one of these prophecies which may, with any degree of apparent plausibility, be referred to the age of Isaiah, and that is chaps.
It is in fact worthy to be put by the side of the finest passages of chaps.
This writing has been preserved in its entirety in the Ascension of Isaiah, of which it constitutes chaps.
See Robert Nisbet Bain, Pupils of Peter the Great (London, 1895), chaps.
Passing from chaps.
There is a striking contrast between chaps.
That both parts do not belong to the same author is now generally admitted, as is also the fact that chaps.
That chaps.
The best ever written by any church father on this subject is to be found in chaps.
The second group of laws is thus to a certain extent supplementary to the first, and was, doubtless, intended as such by the editor of chaps.
Most probably the second group was excerpted by the editor of chaps.
At the same time it seems, like chaps.
It is hardly doubtful also that the group of laws, which form the basis of chaps.
It cannot be denied, however, that chaps.
The various laws are clearly defined by the formula " I am Yahweh," or " I am Yahweh your God," phrases which are especially characteristic of chaps.
The king must have listened to the curses as well as the blessings in chap. xxviii., and no doubt also to the exhortations in chaps.
But dream on, chaps - that scenario is pure bunkum.
Wear a hard hat and leather chaps if you think the horse may cause trouble.
You may notice that Ben Rock and Jon Vamp have already done this (many thanks chaps ).
Don't look so glum - your chaps will get all the glory in the end.
He is that joiner around the corner making bespoke joinery in an industrial unit with a decent bunch of chaps.
Consistent performance, chaps The breathy vocals of bassist Hamilton on How will I ever find my way home?
Eventually we ended up in a tenement block where we found two youngish chaps sitting in a small room positively overflowing with cameras.
If you want to dress your child in western wear from head to toe, check out their selection of pants, accessories, and even chaps.
Wear your tee with jeans, a vest or leather chaps - they're a great casual wear item for lounging, hanging out, running errands and especially, riding.
Available lines include Bobby Jones, Greg Norman, Callaway Golf, Nautica, Polo, Chaps and many more.
This is where you can get coats for dressage, including shadbelly, classic jodhpurs, ratcatchers, chaps and classic riding boots designed for wider calves.
He takes an actress, a scriptwriter and a couple of sea worthy chaps with him to Skull Island, an uncharted place shown on a mysterious map.
There's more out there than the harnesses and chaps that normally come to mind when you hear "men" and "leather" in the same sentence.
Chaps don't really count as true lingerie, but they're often worn in provocative settings so we've chosen to include them in the rundown.
Tear away underwear -- Several varieties of rip-off cire shorts, bikinis and studded chaps shorts with g-strings are available.
Sexy Depot - Bustiers, corsets, chaps, patent leather lingerie, body suits, costumes, gloves, garter belts…you name it, Sexy Depot more than likely has got it.
The Sennacherib prophecies must be taken in connexion with the historical appendix, chaps.