Meaning

2 senses

  1. (plural, plural only)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.

    чаппарахасčapparaxas

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

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Protective leather leggings attached at the waist:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: chapses
Singularchaps
Pluralchapses

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedwoolies
Derivedriding chaps

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chaperonechaplainchaplinchapterA2char

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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