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Bloke vs. Chap — What's the Difference?

Bloke vs. Chap — What's the Difference?

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Bloke

Bloke is a slang term for a common man in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The earliest known usage is from the early 19th century, when it was recorded as a London slang term.

Chap

To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure
The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.

Bloke

A fellow; a man.

Chap

To split or become rough and sore
Skin that chaps easily in winter.

Bloke

(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
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Chap

A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.

Bloke

A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

Chap

A man or boy; a fellow.

Bloke

A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.

Chap

A man, a fellow.
Who’s that chap over there?

Bloke

(A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.

Chap

A customer, a buyer.

Bloke

An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Chap

(Southern US) A child.

Bloke

A man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric

Chap

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

Chap

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

Chap

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Chap

The jaw.

Chap

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Chap

Clipping of chapter

Chap

(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

Chap

(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

Chap

To strike, knock.

Chap

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.

Chap

To strike; to beat.

Chap

To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

Chap

To strike; to knock; to rap.

Chap

To bargain; to buy.

Chap

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

Chap

A division; a breach, as in a party.
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

Chap

A blow; a rap.

Chap

One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; - commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.

Chap

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

Chap

A buyer; a chapman.
If you want to sell, here is your chap.

Chap

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

Chap

A boy or man;
That chap is your host
There's a fellow at the door
He's a likable cuss

Chap

A long narrow depression in a surface

Chap

A crack in a lip caused usually by cold

Chap

(usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs

Chap

Crack due to dehydration;
My lips chap in this dry weather

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