chap
chap is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- transitive verb. To strike; to beat.
- intransitive verb. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
- intransitive verb. To strike; to knock; to rap.
- noun. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- noun. A division; a breach, as in a party.
- noun. A blow; a rap.
- noun. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
- noun. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
- noun. A buyer; a chapman.
- noun. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
- intransitive verb. To bargain; to buy.
- 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
- noun. a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
- noun. a boy or man
"that chap is your host"
"there's a fellow at the door"
- noun. a long narrow depression in a surface
- verb. crack due to dehydration
"My lips chap in this dry weather"
Synonyms
blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chap:
Common word forms
chaps, chaped, chapes, chapped, chapless, chapping
Words from these letters
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