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chap

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Noun

  1. A man, a fellow.
  2. A customer, a buyer.
  3. A child.
  4. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  5. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  6. A blow; a rap.
  7. The jaw.
  8. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
  9. Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

Verb

  1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. To strike, knock.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
  2. A surname from Khmer.

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