Meaning of Chap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A surname from Khmer.
3. A man, a fellow.
4. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
5. The jaw.
   archaic, in-plural, often
6. Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
   Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
7. A customer, a buyer.
   UK, dialectal
8. A division; a breach, as in a party.
   obsolete
9. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
10. A child.
    Southern-US
11. A blow; a rap.
    Scotland

Equivalents

Examples

“Who’s that chap over there?”

““Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.””

“A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.”

“‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’”

“If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.”

“Many clefts and chaps in our council board.”

“This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!”

“His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.”

“He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.”

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