Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 17 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- 2transitive verb
To strike; to beat.
- 3intransitive verb
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
- 4intransitive verb
To strike; to knock; to rap.
- 5noun
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- 6noun
A division; a breach, as in a party.
- 7noun
A blow; a rap.
- 8noun
One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
- 9noun
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
- 10noun
A buyer; a chapman.
- 11noun
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
- 12intransitive verb
To bargain; to buy.
- 13noun
(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
- 14noun
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
- 15noun
a boy or man
"that chap is your host"
"there's a fellow at the door"
- 16noun
a long narrow depression in a surface
- 17verb
crack due to dehydration
"My lips chap in this dry weather"
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