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Definition of CHAP
1. Verb. Crack due to dehydration. "My lips chap in this dry weather"
2. Noun. A boy or man. "He's a good bloke"
Generic synonyms: Male, Male Person
Specialized synonyms: Dog
3. Noun. A long narrow depression in a surface.
Generic synonyms: Depression, Impression, Imprint
Derivative terms: Fissure
4. Noun. A crack in a lip caused usually by cold.
5. Noun. (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.
Definition of CHAP
1. v. t. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
2. v. i. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
3. n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
4. n. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
5. n. A buyer; a chapman.
6. v. i. To bargain; to buy.
Definition of CHAP
1. Noun. (dialectal) a customer, a buyer ¹
2. Noun. (context: dated except UK and _Australia) a man or fellow ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. ¹
4. Verb. (context: Scotland northern England) To strike, knock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of CHAP
1. to split, crack, or redden [v CHAPPED, CHAPT, CHAPPING, CHAPS]
Medical Definition of CHAP
1. Acronym for cyclophosphamide, hexamethylmelamine, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), and cisplatin, a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of ovarian cancer. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of CHAP
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