Word.ws English Dictionary

chefnaps

chefnaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chefnap.

Meaning of chefnap

Verb

chefnap (third-person singular simple present chefnaps, present participle chefnapping, simple past and past participle chefnapped)

  1. (transitive) To abduct or kidnap a chef.
    • That Wodehouse Chap I think you have hit upon a brilliant new scheme in publishing Wodehouse on "chefnapping" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, March 6). What better way to have readers become acquainted with authors they haven't sampled than with your vignettes? (Reviews on Wodehouse are usually "Wodehouse is...1961, Samuel Thurston Williamson, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Rex Smith, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, Volume 57, volume 57, Newsweek, Incorporated, page 2

Questions about chefnaps

What is chefnaps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chefnaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chefnap.

Words near chefnaps in the dictionary

  1. chefmanship
  2. chefnap
  3. chefnapped
  4. chefnapping
  5. chefnappings
  6. chefnaps
  7. Chefoo
  8. Chefornak
  9. chefs
  10. chefs d'oeuvre
  11. chefs d'œuvre

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chefnaps (page history and authors); chefnap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chefnaps.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chefnaps. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.