Word Definition

Chap

  1. A buyer; a chapman.
  2. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
  3. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  4. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
  5. To bargain; to buy.
  6. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  7. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
  8. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
  9. To strike; to beat.
  10. To strike; to knock; to rap.
  11. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  12. A blow; a rap.

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