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Chap

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

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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