chap

noun

1. A man, a fellow.

   “Who’s that chap over there?”

   ““Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.””

   “A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.”

   “‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’”

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

   “If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.”

3. (Southern-US)A child.
4. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
5. (obsolete)A division; a breach, as in a party.

   “Many clefts and chaps in our council board.”

6. (Scotland)A blow; a rap.
7. (archaic, in-plural, often)The jaw.

   “This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!”

   “His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.”

   “He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.”

8. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
9. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”).
10. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

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.

   “Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.”

   “whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.”

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

   “And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.”

   “The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
2. A surname from Khmer.