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noun (used with a plural verb ) a pair of joined leather leggings, often widely flared, worn over trousers, especially by cowboys, as protection against burs, rope burns, etc., while on horseback.
Also called chaparajos , chaparejos.
Origin of chaps 1810–20, Americanism ; short for chaparajos
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Example sentences from the Web for chaps I put monkeys on the sheep, and one was a cowboy in chaps and a cowboy hat, and one was a jockey in silks.
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“You chaps are very careless,” he scolds them, offering them the extra cash.
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Yet, at the party conference and in Shadow Cabinet meetings and in Parliament, she regularly reduced these chaps to mush.
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The term "the rest," applied to persons, occurs in the following passages of the Apocalypse in addition to that before us: chaps .
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation | William Milligan
"Does me good, George, to see the chaps behind their counters like I was once," he explained.
He had had rather poor luck with the wood-mice, and his chaps watered with the memory of those trout in the wagon.
Hoof and Claw | Charles G. D. Roberts
Gawd love you, guv'nor, they'd fight 'ell's blazes, them chaps would!
Changing Winds | St. John G. Ervine
Brown himself talks of "the chaps ," or "the fellows," who in turn know Brown only as Tom Thumb.
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for chaps pl n leather overalls without a seat, worn by cowboys Also called: chaparejos , chaparajos
Word Origin for chaps C19: shortened from chaparejos
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Words related to chaps bloke, lad, boy, man, fellow, gent