Word Meaning

chap definition and meaning

v. t. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
v. t. To strike; to beat.
v. i. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
v. i. To strike; to knock; to rap.
n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
n. A division; a breach, as in a party.
n. A blow; a rap.
n. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
n. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
n. A buyer; a chapman.
n. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
v. i. To bargain; to buy.

Crossword clues for chap

- A fellow
- Bloke
- British person
- Crack (of the skin)
- Extremely cheap fellow
- Fellow
- Man is, right from the start, coldly hostile and pitiless
- Man or boy