Definition of Chap

1. Noun. A boy or man. "He's a good bloke"

Exact synonyms: Blighter, Bloke, Cuss, Fella, Feller, Fellow, Gent, Lad
Generic synonyms: Male, Male Person
Specialized synonyms: Dog

2. Verb. Crack due to dehydration. "My lips chap in this dry weather"
Generic synonyms: Crack

3. Noun. A long narrow depression in a surface.
Exact synonyms: Crack, Cranny, Crevice, Fissure
Generic synonyms: Depression, Impression, Imprint
Derivative terms: Fissure

4. Noun. A crack in a lip caused usually by cold.
Generic synonyms: Cleft, Crack, Crevice, Fissure, Scissure

5. Noun. (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs.
Generic synonyms: Leg Covering, Legging, Leging
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Definition of Chap

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

2. v. i. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

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

4. 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.

5. n. A buyer; a chapman.

6. v. i. To bargain; to buy.

Definition of Chap

1. Noun. (dialectal) a customer, a buyer ¹

2. Noun. (context: dated except UK and _Australia) a man or fellow ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. ¹

4. Verb. (context: Scotland northern England) To strike, knock. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chap

1. to split, crack, or redden [v CHAPPED, CHAPT, CHAPPING, CHAPS]

Medical Definition of Chap

1. Acronym for cyclophosphamide, hexamethylmelamine, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), and cisplatin, a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of ovarian cancer. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chap

chaotic
chaotic attractor
chaotic heart
chaotically
chaotician
chaoticist
chaoticists
chaoticities
chaoticity
chaotick
chaoticness
chaotics
chaotization
chaotropic
chaotropism
chap (current term)
chaparejos
chaparral
chaparral broom
chaparral cock
chaparral mallow
chaparral pea
chaparral sage
chaparrals
chapati
chapatis
chapatti
chapattis
chapbook

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