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Chap

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

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
But now, I think a lot of people and- especially the way, we 've got- even got the oarsmen outdone. Chap- somebody in Mar-- the Maritimes, for the World-Championships, devised the starting things. Beautiful.
Man or boy
How are we going to do better in the future?" I remember this chap from East-Germany got up and he said what they were doing in East- Germany. Some of their situations were wonderful. They 'd take a city like Toronto and they 'd divide it up into pies.
Man or boy
It 'd been a nursing-home at one time um and actually, I bought a house on Corselette and the chap that was trying to sell it was in problems because he had bought this house. And I remember, we worked a deal that he took back a third mortgage and everything, so I- I took that place.
Man or boy
One of them, the Goo-Foo up here- do you know, with all my knowledge of the Beach, I had to read a book that was ah based on the Beach, and this chap explained to his girlfriend how the Goo-Foo got it's name? And apparently, the night they opened up and turned on the lights, two of them were missing.
Man or boy
We had one chap in the Beach, I saw him walking Queen-Street, had nothing against him, doesn 't mean anything to me, but he was a conscientious-objector. We didn 't know what the hell that was at one time.
Man or boy
When- when we came back from overseas, there was a chap had taken over the club to the degree he had the refreshment booth, and he was now running for the first time in Toronto, teenage- records dances.
Man or boy
And then he could write great poems and sports things and so on. He was quite a (inc) chap.
Man or boy
It was a Crown grand of land in day one by a chap that owned all the property in the Beach. There was no houses here at that time and they deeded this- this so-- circle of land which is encompass of the clubhouse now and then things went up and the bowling-greens and so on.
Man or boy
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Ah, as a matter-of-fact, a friend of mine was telling me- and I go to the synagogue every morning, and ah there 's a chap there that comes every Sunday, and we were sitting and talking to- he 's got three sons, ah that are in England. They were born and brought up in England.
Man or boy
It 's totally different. It 's tot-- we were talk-- isn 't that funny, we were talking about it yesterday. One of the chaps that helped David move.
Man or boy
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Our youngest daughter married a chap whose anc-- his father is uh, Dutch and his mother was born in Mexico, but she 's part English and part Mexican. So, our grandkids are a real mixture.
Man or boy
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But the next day he- no I-guess he came up and somehow he was sitting on the chesterfield and somehow money dropped out of his pocket back underneath this chesterfield cushion and I thought, "Gee, I rather like that chap." You-know, it was- yeah. So I phoned him and I said, "Jack, you left a nickel here and, you-know, I just wanted to tell you." And he said "Oh, I'll come up after it."
Man or boy
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But Bill was such a- an intelligent person that- that his chief thought "Well if they're friends of Bill's, why I don't need- I'm not going to ah require any- anything further to back their acquisition to his- his department." And so that's where we went and the middle chap there was the chief of that department-
Man or boy
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And ah, the other was the fact that um, in my teenage years, you usually have a boyfriend right? So ah, I happen to have met this chap. He wasn't a student at that time. I just don't recall how I met him.
Man or boy
And ah, they look at it at such an opportunity and with such eagerness where, you-know, I wonder about that sometimes. "How could they?" You-know, thinking that they're never going to come home, in some cases. But ah, the one chap's name was- was Freeman, that I do remember that had written back and forth to Sean Levine.
Man or boy
But I did remember seeing these letters form men, younger men who was part of this (inc) had gone overseas for the first world war, and Sean Levine just happened to be the chap that they'd wrote letter back home to. And he corresponded with them obviously. And I still have these letters. I shared it with um, Ruby, what was her last name? She lived just back road here.
Man or boy
But that- those buildings eventually burned down. And we felt at the time, there was a young chap that had been working for dad, and he wasn't too happy about life, and they sort of feel that perhaps he took a little bit of his spite out on dad by starting the fires...
Man or boy
Well, I wasn't that excited about seeing him in the office. "What the heck does he want anyway?" Anyway, he advised me not to see this chap anymore, as he was older than I was and he didn't felt (inc) feel that he was good company for me. Well you know when somebody tells you things like that, you're so determined to go the way you're not supposed to go.
Man or boy
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I found- I've located cousins down there. I have a cousin, a very interesting chap who I keep in touch with. In fact I'm doing a lot of research now and a lot of genealogy ah- scans of old documents and letters because another branch of the family the name was l'Amoureaux, that's a French name and ah- originally these people were from the Channel-Islands and I'm just trying to get everything straight now in my mind.
Man or boy
I've got some old pictures of that and in fact I met a chap from Venezuela where we lived at down at the pier, ah, and ah told him I had some pictures, he was very interested to see them so I've got to dig them out when I get everything unpacked here.
Man or boy