Definition of chap

• v. t. - To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
• v. t. - To strike; to beat.
• v. i. - To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
• v. i. - To strike; to knock; to rap.
• n. - A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
• n. - A division; a breach, as in a party.
• n. - A blow; a rap.
• n. - One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
• n. - One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
• n. - A buyer; a chapman.
• n. - A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
• v. i. - To bargain; to buy.