Definition of "chap" in English

noun

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

   • Who’s that chap over there?

2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

3. (Southern US) A child.

verb

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

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

3. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.

noun

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

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

3. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

noun

1. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.

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

noun

1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).