Meaning of chap in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.

  Example: Who’s that chap over there?

• A customer, a buyer.

• A child.

noun

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

• A division; a breach, as in a party.

• A blow; a rap.

verb

• Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

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

• To strike, knock.

noun

• (often in the plural) The jaw.

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

noun

• (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

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

• A section of a social or religious body.

• A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

• A decretal epistle.

• A location or compartment.