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Chaps

/tʃæps/

(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.

📖 Definitions of "Chaps"

noun
  1. 1

    (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.

    "Who’s that chap over there?"

  2. 2

    A customer, a buyer.

  3. 3

    A child.

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A division; a breach, as in a party.

  3. 3

    A blow; a rap.

verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    To strike, knock.

noun
  1. 1

    (often in the plural) The jaw.

  2. 2

    One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

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