CHAP (chapped, chapping)

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Irregular inflected forms: chapped    , chapping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chap mean? 

• CHAP (noun)
  The noun CHAP has 4 senses:

1. a boy or man

2. a long narrow depression in a surface

3. a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

4. (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

  Familiarity information: CHAP used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHAP (verb)
  The verb CHAP has 1 sense:

1. crack due to dehydration

  Familiarity information: CHAP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("chap" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chap"):

dog (informal term for a man)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long narrow depression in a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure

Hypernyms ("chap" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A crack in a lip caused usually by cold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("chap" is a kind of...):

cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)

Derivation:

chap (crack due to dehydration)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chap" is a kind of...):

leg covering; legging; leging (a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

• CHAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chap    ... he / she / it chaps   
Past simple: chapped   
Past participle: chapped   
-ing form: chapping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crack due to dehydration

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

My lips chap in this dry weather

Hypernyms (to "chap" is one way to...):

crack (break partially but keep its integrity)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)

 Context examples 

“By heavens, if they do not, I will kick them out of the room for blockheads. What chap have you there?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

That Longfellow chap most likely had written countless books of poetry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“’Tis a fine chap, that squarehead Johnson we’ve for’ard with us,” he said.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Curse me, but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an' him a old feller, with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he couldn't throw a shadder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What d’you want to frighten a chap for?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was very like the chap I had seen the night before, the same figure and voice, but he was clean shaven and his hair was lighter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was simply what the porter described as a “medium-looking chap,” a man of fifty, beard grizzled, pale face, quietly dressed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor devils they were, down-faced little chaps, and had enough to make them so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After all, thought he, that chap is pretty well taken in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That’s Belcher, ain’t it—the good lookin’ young chap with the flash coat?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)