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chaps

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //t͡ʃæps//
  • //ʃæps//

Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of chapplural of chap

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of chapthird-person singular simple present indicative of chap

noun

  1. 1

    Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.

    If you are going to use that chainsaw, why don't you put on a pair of chaps?

    Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.

  2. 2

    The shaggy hair on male aoudads (barbary sheep) that extends from the throat and chest sometimes covering each leg.

    Mundy also points out mass of horn, scarred faces, long chaps (unless in brushy country and the thick vegetation might pull out chap hair), and scars on the sides of the ram from his long horns rubbing away the hair as good signs that you've found a respectable shooter amongst the many.

Etymology

Short for American Spanish chaparreras or chaparejos. Related to chaparejos and chaparral.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).