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Chap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1716, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
That's the way this generation should do. I've seen so many chaps get a job; got married and tied down in a job he never really (inc). So, I worked in various car plants.
Man or boy
Well I was travelling at that time. I was staying in the Queen's Motel. A chap woke me up at two or three in the morning for the keys to my car.
Man or boy
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The service went on and after the service he came around and said boy was I embarrassed this morning. There was a young chap and his wife and his child down at the back seat in the church, so I went up and said welcome to St-Thomas church.
Man or boy
Then I do remember particularly, you-see I left on the twentieth of April, that was my Swan song, my last service in St-Thomas church, but the Sunday before in the legion and the army and navy chaps decided to come to church and mass.
Man or boy
This is a good one, I'll tell you this one. I went up to the eight-o'clock service one morning, about a-quarter-to-eight and here was a chap coming down the aisle with an overcoat on. I said what are you doing here, and he said well the care-taker told me come here at eight o'clock and he would give me a job.
Man or boy
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Well, now as far as Belleville goes, um a long time ago there was a chap, Jack-Brock who was a lovely singer, he made good I think in Toronto and other Canadian cities and um Neil-McGarret. He made good.
Man or boy
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Well we used the old school. Ah well I remember sitting with, in Latin class, with chap who is now a judge sitting behind me. We'd have to yell at each other because the riveters were just hammering away, putting up the steel trestles with about- within about five feet of the window.
Man or boy
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And the old chap that I had looking after the horses he was always half-mad because someone wasn't too clean and you can understand it, there was just no money, you can understand it because there was no money, nobody had money. No money for clothes and probbly a lot of them no money to buy enough soap to give them a good wash. And the old chap that looked after the horses, he was always half-mad at me, he said we're going to have some disease break out here with all those people around here.
Man or boy
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Oh well, one day a chap stopped to wish me good-luck and another car came along the other way, hit the hind end of my horse and so he threw me down this- over this fence and down a little hill.
Man or boy
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I know that he's- ah he's a lovely chap.
Man or boy
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Well that 's when I, when I was engaged before there. And this chap was in the Air- Force so he went overseas and- with the um, doing the patrols in the Bay-of-Biscayne out of England um, for the German subs.
Man or boy
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...so I went and I worked there with him and there was another Humberside girl working there too. And so ah, we had quite ah, a time and um, I enjoyed that and then the war came along, and um, the chap I was going with went over and I decided I wasn 't going to do anymore ah, work in an office.
Man or boy
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And I kind-of spoke out, and uh, there was one chap who- I didn 't know he was a Colonel, but he was a Colonel and he was sitting there, and he said "That 's no way to talk." I said "Oh," I don 't know what all I said.
Man or boy
Local s-- yes I went to the uh, uh the Catholic school, the separate school, it was on Woodmount just north of uh, north of Danforth, South of us. And uh, there was another chap you may be talking to is Horace-T
Man or boy
nd they have two children, and the daughter is married to a- our granddaughter is married to a chap who just finished law, and they bought a house in Guelph. And she 's a speech therapist.
Man or boy
So I went back and wrote the letter and- and uh, I had to get the okay to leave school of course, and uh, uh anyway, when I was at the uh- at work I saw the- in the file I saw the- what the other chaps have written, and I thought "Boy they 're an awful lot better than mine."
Man or boy
Sure. Went through uh, Waterloo, and she married a Jewish chap, uh at the end, and we tried to disuade it frankly, and he 's from Montreal, was, but uh, he 's in- he was a- majored- or not majored, he became a- got his doctorate in Philosophy, and uh, they did very well, they spent, uh, oh a couple years in uh, uh...
Man or boy
ut one time there again- one time along Danforth-Avenue at Greenwood, I was peddling along like a- there was a re-- red light, this chap opened his door and I got smacked right into it
Man or boy
yeah. And uh, the people who have it now, have put another story on top, and extended it, actually the chap was uh, I think he 's German, certainly Austrian if not German, he and his wife go sailing all summer, down in the Caribbean...
Man or boy
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Speaker: Art-Hallman. And- oh, who was the chap at the Palais-Royale? Or the Palace-Pier? There were two of them. Interviewer: Oh golly, I forget. Yeah, I don 't know. Speaker: Oh yeah. He- he disappeared quite often and they figure he had a bit of a drinking problem.
Man or boy