chaps

From chap.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæps/

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• Rhymes: -æps

chaps pl

1. plural of chap

chaps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chap

Short for American Spanish chaparreras or chaparejos. Related to chaparejos and chaparral.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæps/, /ʃæps/

chaps pl (plural only)

1. 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.

2. The shaggy hair on male aoudads (barbary sheep) that extends from the throat and chest sometimes covering each leg.
   • 2025 August, Shane Jann, “Analyzing aoudads”, in Texas Outdoors, pages 32–32:

     Mundy also points out mass of horn, scarred faces, long chaps (unless in brushy country and the thick vegetation might pull out chap hair), and scars on the sides of the ram from his long horns rubbing away the hair as good signs that you've found a respectable shooter amongst the many.

• Bath chaps

• chinks
• woolies

• Pasch

Onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -aps
• Syllabification: chaps

chaps

1. alternative form of chap

• chaps in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chaps in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887), “chaps”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 129