chaps

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  1. plural noun Heavy leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by ranch hands to protect their legs.

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  • I'll give him something worse than this before long Then he decided to listen Wonder if them chaps is his friends? —  Frank Merriwell's Races
  • I had a sort of feller-feelin' for you chaps, and I thought mebbe we might arrange some sort of a deal together that would do this Merriwell, and do him for keeps. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
  • Those chaps are the ones who should be arrested But we didn't catch 'em You caught us because we had been foully knocked out by the crowd," declared Jack. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
  • Dere was some fellers in dere wot was college chaps, and dey was talkin' about races and t'ings. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
  • I never put much stock in those Honduras chaps--but this one seems to be all right. —  The Brand of Silence A Detective Story
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  1. Short for American Spanish chaparreras, from Spanish chaparro, chaparral; see chaparral.
 

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