chap

noun

(Southern US) A child.

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

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

A surname from Khmer.

(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). [One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.]

(computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.

(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.

(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

(archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.

verb

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

(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.

Synonyms for chap

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