Read full poem →And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as straight a chap
As treads upon the land.
Dictionary Entry
(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
In a Sentence
“Who’s that chap over there?”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. chapchap seechap oldchap little
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Poetry examples for “chap”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And light in heart and limb,
And each chap thinking
The fair was held for him.
Read full poem →He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap."
Read full poem →lAttU trench Lawyer , a comedy. The plot is borrowed from Gusmali^
t>r the Spanish Rogue^ part ii. chap. 4. The story of Dinant, Clereraont,
and Lamira, being borrowed from Don Lewis de Castro, and Don Rode-
Read full poem →every goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old feller
belch the chap hic sum- more eh chuckles skulch. . . .
Read full poem →I thought, old chap, you're wearing out,
Read full poem →as when I was young. I'm sorry, all the same, dear girl. There are
you, growin' middle-aged and not married to some good-'earted chap
as 'd give you three-four children I could pet in me old age.
Read full poem →the _Courier_, in 1816, and republished in the _Biographia Literaria_,
in 1817 (chap, xxiii.), he gives a detailed analysis of "the old Spanish
play, entitled _Atheista Fulminato_ [_vide ante_, the 'Introduction to
Read full poem →Chap. III. Of that Part of the Mauritati^
Cse&rieniis and Numidia, at prefim caUid