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chaps

The correct spelling is chaps.

How to pronounce chaps

noun

IPA: /tʃæps/

Say it like: Cha-ps

The correct spelling is chaps. (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow. For example: "Who’s that chap over there?"

Usage Examples

Who’s that chap over there?

Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.

Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
  2. 2.A customer, a buyer.
  3. 3.A child.
  4. 4.A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  5. 5.A division; a breach, as in a party.

verb

  1. 1.Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. 2.To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. 3.To strike, knock.

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