chap
/t͡ʃæp/ noun B2- A man, a fellow. · Who’s that chap over there?
- A child.
Plural chaps
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What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?”
I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels—chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.
“I’ve seen many a drunk chap in my time,” he said, “but never anyone so cryin’ drunk as that cove.
He was a long chap, with a red face, the lower part muffled round——”
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