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chappo

chappo is the diminutive of chap.

Meaning of chap

Noun (1)

chap (plural chaps)

  1. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
    • Who’s that chap over there?
  2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
    • If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act 3
  3. (Southern US) A child.

Noun (2)

chap (plural chaps)

  1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  2. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
    • Many clefts and chaps in our council board.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  3. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

See all 12 meanings of chap

Forms of chappo

pluralchappos

Origin of chappo

From chap + -o.

Questions about chappo

What is chappo the diminutive of?
Chappo is the diminutive of chap.

Words near chappo in the dictionary

  1. Chapple
  2. Chapple Vale
  3. Chapples
  4. chappli
  5. chapplis
  6. chappo
  7. chappos
  8. chapps
  9. Chappuis absorption
  10. chappy
  11. Chapra

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