chap
noun/tʃæp/
/tʃæp/
(British English, informal, old-fashioned)- used to talk about a man in a friendly way
- He isn't such a bad chap really.
- Come on, chaps, let’s go now!
Extra Examples- He's a decent sort of chap.
- The poor old chap was very shaken by the experience.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clever
- decent
- good
- …
- not (such) a bad chap
- sort of chap
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a buyer or customer): abbreviation of chapman ‘pedlar’. The current sense dates from the early 18th cent.
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