- present tense form of chap (3rd person singular).
chaps
Example Sentences
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These guys fish the Islands nearly year round and have become the pulse of the haps in the Islands.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2011
Per haps the most influential man present was Metropolitan Nikodim of Lenin grad, the chief diplomat-bishop of the world's largest Orthodox body, the Pa triarchate of Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Per haps the proudest measure of the surgeon's success is the built-in assurance of today's hospital truism: "If they can operate, you're lucky."
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, a contingent of American military trainers and technical advisers, per haps as many as 100 or more, would be stationed ashore to help instruct the Lebanese Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the peaks store rain and distribute it more evenly, and per- haps, being more wooded, they draw more rainfall.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
