chap

noun, informal, a man, a boy, a fellow (COD)

“There was an old chap running up the street all drunk hanging out the cutter.”

“Wasn’t anyone living in that house at the time, and after our ball games, a couple of chaps would come in and play, and we would have dances there.”

“This chap out of Toronto was telling me now they have a flash drill. They drill a hole in the back door and look in, see what’s in there.”

“We had a chap from, ah, and I don’t even- How did we find out about Len? Len Jones from Kingston?”

“We got a phone call from her one night, and then followed up immediately by a phone call from another chap from a different family.”

“We’re lucky, though. We take off a lot of comb honey. And there’s a chap in Toronto takes quite a lot of it.”

“There was a young chap from Kingston was killed coming out of there.”

“Well the one chap had an antique store down street here where the bakery is now, and he had quite a few antiques, and they were printing a little paper.”

“Well I got mine from an elderly chap who did it as a bit of a hobby business up around Stirling.”

“They put a new piece on the end of it, and they put a nice big deck on the other end, and it’s a nice place now, and the chap that lives there, he has a huge herd of cattle.”

“There was quite a range of people there. I remember, I went through school with a chap that I haven’t seen in years and years.”