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name
Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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name
A surname from Khmer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A man, a fellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: dated outside UK and Australia
Synonyms: bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove, covey, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg, dude, fella, fellow, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, guy, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye
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noun
A customer, a buyer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
A child.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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noun
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A division; a breach, as in a party.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A blow; a rap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
The jaw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, in-plural, often
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noun
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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verb
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To strike, knock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
(usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: legging, leging, leg covering
noun
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
noun
a boy or man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: male, male person
Narrower terms: dog
noun
a long narrow depression in a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure
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Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
verb
crack due to dehydration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: crack
History
Borrowed from Khmer ឆាប (chaap).
Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.
From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Shortening.
Across languages
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
