chaps

(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.

“Who’s that chap over there?”

A customer, a buyer.

A child.

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

A division; a breach, as in a party.

A blow; a rap.

Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

To strike, knock.

(often in the plural) The jaw.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

“Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.”

A section of a social or religious body.

A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

A decretal epistle.

A location or compartment.

Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

“Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.”