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chaps
/tʃæps/
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What does chaps mean?
noun
- plural of chap
- Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of chap
More meanings (3)
noun
- The shaggy hair on male aoudads (barbary sheep) that extends from the throat and chest sometimes covering each leg.
proper noun
- Acronym of clearing house automated payment system, a method of same-day banking transfer.
- plural of Chap
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IPA pronunciation
/tʃæps/
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By this wine, I’ll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me.
After breakfast we all laid off and talked, and the first thing that come out was that these chaps didn’t know one another.
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“Why, they’re Lunnon chaps, I reckon,” said Hiram, who had a dim notion of London as a centre of hostility to the country.
They came hand in hand, sturdy, fine little chaps, and stood solemnly at attention, with big, wondering eyes fixed on the strange gentleman.
The Barbel is so called, says Gesner, by reason of his barb or wattles at his mouth, which are under his nose or chaps.