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Chap

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

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
He's not ah- I know for a f-- ah the- the chap that does the McDonalds here, he's the manager of ah three of them. He's a good friend of mine and ah he- he- he's doing quite well as a manager…
Man or boy
Well, ah the (laughs)- this one time ah- well there was- it was funny it- it- it- it- it was kind of you-know- we had a- a chap that ah used to do maintenance in the m-- in the mall.
Man or boy
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One chap in particular by the name of Daniel-Koo who ended up at the University-of-Toronto in the school of dentistry.
Man or boy
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Yeah, she'd married a chap from Peru. Oh it's a lot of it's in that book. Um and had three children and then she married- they separated and she came back to Kirkland-Lake and she met- married a chap from here, who I stood up for, for when she got married and I was- we were really- Richard and I were really happy about that because there was a good union.
Man or boy
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Another chap too that's ah one of the younger fellas, he didn't go or get overseas but he was an American and- and ah ah when the Korean-War started, he didn't go back to the States. When the Korean-War started, he had no service in the American army so he was drafted. And he was killed in Korea.
Man or boy
No, I was alright in that because of their correspondence, I was pretty good- pretty good in the formal- formal grammar English. Ah one of the other chaps too, they had an English department, he had his thing for killing time before
Man or boy
What ah what did we do? The only guy I- one- one chap I had to throw out of there because he was- he wanted out, he was taking- he was fifteen and wanted out of the thing, so I finally threw him out physically.
Man or boy
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Yeah, well I'll tell him that and ah- so there was a- chap came that had- where did he meet him?
Man or boy
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All of this food arrived and we couldn't possibly eat it all. But ah he wa-- he was a really fine chap. And was- what was I going to say. Something else about them.
Man or boy
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And the chap with me had been in Elliot-Lake too and he said "Rick," he said, "Don't touch a thing 'til I go and ask and make sure. His memory's so bad, he could have forgot." About two in the afternoon.
Man or boy
I was taxiing up to ah Monteith-Prison-Farm taking drugs for the drug store and the chap with me was full of questions. He said, "What kind of trees are those on the road?" I said, "Those are Balm-of-Gilead there and they're birch there."
Man or boy
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No. This- this chap came over here and met this girl, he went back to England with a- with the army. <4> Uh-huh. <023> Went a- I believe through to India for a little while.
Man or boy
Well, it was- it- well ah, actually it was because of a chap in Haliburton Dale-Jeremy who was president of the legion at the time. And he really wanted to play band in the legion.
Man or boy
Now the- the- they didn't get their land from the Canadian-Land-and-Immigration-Company. There was a chap named Regis-Brockman actually owned it and he- they bought from him but ah- but there's like there was four boys and I-think five girls.
Man or boy
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About two days after I made that decision, I got a phone call from Toronto and chap that li-- grew up here and- and still has property here, he said, "So-and-so just sent me ah um ah program for a Calithumpian-Parade." He said, "I'm going to bring it up to you this weekend."
Man or boy
ss it's (inc)? <028> Ah I'm thinking of two chaps in particular that know it- it almost seems as th
Man or boy
They're retiring back here now. The chap across the road worked at G-M. And chap down the raod worked at G-M and- you-know? But they- they left and- but this is still home to them.
Man or boy
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There was one little chap. I think he was the grade-five. Ah, literally didn't say a word to me all year long. I couldn't get him to communicate. There were two or three in grade-one. The grade-six, sevens and eights were pretty bright.
Man or boy
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Ah, Jackie and I ah- she fell downstairs. She lived over at garage and she fell down outside on the stairs. So we- she called ah (inc) chap called from the- when he found out what happened.
Man or boy
And they were all at- out at the Cedar's. We'd been at carp fair, this other chap and him and I wasn't getting along, we were fighting like cats and dogs.
Man or boy