chappie

or chap·py

[ chap-ee ]

nounplural chap·pies.British Informal.

Origin of chappie

1
First recorded in 1815–25; chap2 + -ie

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How to use chappie in a sentence

  • Rummy, he reflected, how chappies stayed the same all their lives as they were when they were kids.

    Jill the Reckless | P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • He had the aspect of one who had been soaked with what the newspaper chappies call "some blunt instrument."

    My Man Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
  • Chappies keep them on ice for years and years, and don't sell them till they fetch about a dollar a whirl.

    My Man Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
  • The whole thing reminded me of one of those melodramas where they drive chappies out of the old homestead into the snow.

    My Man Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
  • Little wonder that so ungrateful an epoch was mostly given over to hybridizing chrysanthemums and breeding chappies.

British Dictionary definitions for chappie

chappie

/ (ˈtʃæpɪ) /


noun
  1. informal another word for chap 1 (def. 2)

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