Chaps

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  • noun plural. Heavy leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by ranch hands to protect their legs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An abbreviated form of chaparejos.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. Short for chaparajos.
  • noun plural. The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See chap.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Plural form of chap.
  • verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chap.
  • noun. Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.
  • Word Usage
    "Then his fringed buckskin "chaps" went; in their place a pair of dreadful grey cloth trousers."
    cross-reference
    chinks  woolies  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Japs  Lapps  apps  caps  claps  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bazoo  chop  chops  embouchure  gab  
    variant
    chap  chaparajos  
    verb-stem
    chap