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Definition of CHAPS
1. n. pl. The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
2. n. pl. Short for Chaparajos.
Definition of CHAPS
1. Proper noun. (British) (acronym of clearing house automated payment system dot=:) a method of same-day banking transfer. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of chap) ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of chap) ¹
4. Noun. Protective leather leggings attached at the waist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of CHAPS
1. chap [v] - See also: chap
Lexicographical Neighbors of CHAPS
Literary usage of CHAPS
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American History by David Saville Muzzey (1911)
"I, chaps, vii, viii; AB HART, American History told by Contemporaries, Vol. ...
I, part iv, chaps, i-iv; JK HOSMER, The Appeal to Arms (American Nation ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Chaps, ix.-xi. are ascribed to a contemporary of Amos and Hosea, ... That chaps,
xii.-xiv. are also pre-exilic is held to appear especially in the attack on ..."
3. An Introduction to the Old Testament: Chronologically Arranged by Harlan Creelman (1917)
"Kent considers that the original collection of Proverbs is found in chaps.
10:1-22:16 and dates it 621-600 BC1 Formerly he dated the collection as a whole c ..."
4. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"xiv. of Part I., and chaps, i.-v. of Part II. (the Huron report). The remainder
of the document will appear in Volume XXVII. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"‘the European and American background of the new national imperialism is discussed
in Ogg, chaps. vii, x, xi and xvi; Hayes, Volume II, chaps. xviii and ..."
6. Outlines of European History by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard (1916)
"JOHNSTON, Napoleon, chaps, i-vi, the best brief account in English. RUSE, The
Life of Napoleon ... I, chaps, i-xi, the most scholarly account in English. ..."
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