Chap can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| chap - crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather" | ||
Noun |
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| chap - (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 | ||
| chap - a crack in a lip caused usually by cold | ||
| chap - a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" | ||
| chap - a long narrow depression in a surface |
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| 1. | noun | That chap is your host. | |
| 2. | noun | There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all. | |
| 3. | noun | Although this chap came into the world in a somewhat impudent fashion, before he was sent for, his mother was pretty; we had fun making him, and the illegitimate fellow must be acknowledged. | |
| 4. | noun | Tom's a polite, kind, and self-effacing chap, who you wouldn't hesitate to introduce to your parents. | |
| 5. | noun | He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen. | |
| 6. | noun | My dear chap, I'm overjoyed to see you. | |
| 7. | verb | My lips chap in this dry weather. | |
| 8. | verb | In the winter, my lips would chap. | |
| 9. | verb | Lips chap in winter. |
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| noun | |
| That chap is your host. |
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| There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all. | |
| Although this chap came into the world in a somewhat impudent fashion, before he was sent for, his mother was pretty; we had fun making him, and the illegitimate fellow must be acknowledged. | |
| Tom's a polite, kind, and self-effacing chap, who you wouldn't hesitate to introduce to your parents. | |
| He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen. | |
| My dear chap, I'm overjoyed to see you. | |
| verb | |
| My lips chap in this dry weather. |
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| In the winter, my lips would chap. | |
| Lips chap in winter. | |