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chap

(/tS//A/p )

a boy or man(noun.person)

Example:
That chap is your host.

Synonym:
blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad

source: wordnet30
a long narrow depression in a surface(noun.shape)

Synonym:
crack, cranny, crevice, fissure

source: wordnet30
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold(noun.object)

source: wordnet30
(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.artifact)

source: wordnet30
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.(noun)

source: webster1913
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)

source: webster1913
A buyer; a chapman.(noun)

source: webster1913

crack due to dehydration(verb.change)

Example:
My lips chap in this dry weather.

source: wordnet30
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.(verb)

source: webster1913
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.(verb)

source: webster1913
To bargain; to buy.(verb)

source: webster1913

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