chap

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——”