present participle of chap

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

Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

plural of chap

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chap

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.

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

(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

(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.