chap
verb/tʃæp/
/tʃæp/
[intransitive]- (of the skin or lips) to become rough, dry and painful, especially because of wind or cold weather
- His skin is very dry and chaps easily.
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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