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CHAP

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chap¹ substantiv

(fam.) băiat, tip, individ, flăcău, fârtat, ortac;

merry chap băiat vesel;

nice chap băiat simpatic, băiat drăguţ;

old chap dragă prietene.

chap² I. substantiv

crăpătură, ochi, deschizătură.

chap² II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a despica, a crăpa.

2. a i se crăpa (mâinile).

3. a fărâmiţa, a toca, a mărunţi.

chap² II. verb B. intranzitiv

a (se) crăpa.

chap³ substantiv (mai ales la pl.)

1. falcă; bot, rât (al animalelor).

2. (glumeţ) falcă; bot (al omului).

3. (tehn.) falcă de menghină.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Of course I don't like the crowd, but what's a poor chap to do?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I don't know what you chaps think, but it strikes me that we are on mighty thin ice all this time.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looks a tidy chap.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now a person wouldn't think it, fur to see this little thing alongside a rough-weather chap like me, said Mr. Peggotty, looking round at both of us, with infinite pride; but the sea ain't more salt in it than she has fondness in her for her uncle—a foolish little Em'ly!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You may well look surprised, Dr. Watson; but it is this way, said he: When I was speaking to the other chap in London, at the time that he laughed at my not going to Mawson’s, I happened to notice that his tooth was stuffed in this very identical fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"My dear chap," said he, "I really cannot allow it."

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he had been silent he might have blown the whole thing, but he was a nervous little chap, so he gave a cry of surprise and turned so pale that the man knew what was up in an instant and seized him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All right, little chap, he's only a human, just the same as the rest of us.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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