chap

Meaning

Noun

1. A man, a fellow.
2. A customer, a buyer.
3. A child.

Verb

1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
3. To strike, knock.

Synonyms

crack

fellow

guy

bloke

lad

split

boy

👦

fissure

dude

man

👨

rift

slit

jaw

crevice

cuss

blighter

fella

feller

chink

cleft

roughen

tear

gent

coarsen

breach

young man

burst

geezer

person

🧑‍🦱

cranny

cove

harden

rent

scissure

shaver

splinter

stamp

stick

type

urchin

worming

young fellow

crack open

get chapped

incisura

split open

be horny

rhagade

be chapped

beezer

sport

young lad

ou

alligator crack

be cleft

become fissured

map cracking

formation of cracking

baby

👶

alligator-hide crack

bod

break

bruce

callosity

callus

carl

child

🧒

chum

corn

🌽

crevasse

description

dry out

figure

fissures

flaw

form

formula

homey

imp

👿

individual

Joe

jowl

loon

mouth

norm

old man

pal

pard

press

print

rend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃæp/

Etymology

Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.