Chaps Definition

chăps, shăps
noun
Leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by cowboys to protect their legs.
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Chops.

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Plural form of chap.

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Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

If you are going to use that chainsaw, why don't you put on a pair of chaps?
Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.
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verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chap.

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pronoun

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

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Origin of Chaps

  • Short for American Spanish chaparreras from Spanish chaparro chaparral chaparral

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short for American Spanish chaparreras.

    From Wiktionary

  • From chap.

    From Wiktionary

Chaps Sentence Examples

  • Their work was exemplary on several occasions, so I said "Come on chaps. Let's go to Paris for the weekend."

  • It licks its chaps from time to time.

  • The whole difficulty seems to arise from the long prevalent assumption that chaps.

  • Natural as the feeling against disintegration may be, the difficulties in the way of admitting the unity of chaps.

  • There is only one of these prophecies which may, with any degree of apparent plausibility, be referred to the age of Isaiah, and that is chaps.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHA

Words Ending With

SPSAPS

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chaps

Words Starting With C and Ending With S

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