(of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface. / (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

simple past tense and past participle of chap

plural of chap

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chap

Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

(Britain) Acronym of clearing house automated payment system: a method of same-day banking transfer.

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. / (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party. / (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow. / (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer. / (Southern US) A child.

(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. / (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(archaic, often in the plural) The jaw. / One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.