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13.1 | Chaps teadance 4pm $1 cover | EUCLID::LEVASSEUR | Ayatollah of Rock n Rollah | Fri Nov 14 1986 08:50 | 5 |
| Chaps! young men! according to the Amerikkan Heritage dictionary
chaps....informal reference to a young man or boy....of course Chaps
ia also the name of a gay bar in boston :-)
Ray
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13.2 | cowboys | CACHE::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Fri Nov 14 1986 17:29 | 8 |
| Chaps are also those leather things cowboys wear to protect their
jeans while riding through brush.
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13.3 | Chaps are....... | ROYCE::RKE | A little levity goes a long way | Mon Nov 17 1986 12:19 | 12 |
| Things that some people get on their.....lips...hands...and
sundry other parts of their exposed atomomy........especially in some Boston
bars ................
............and I should think the time of year is about right as well!
@ @
^ )
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Richard.
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13.4 | | CSSE32::PHILPOTT | CSSE/Lang. & Tools, ZK02-1/N71 | Wed Nov 19 1986 18:07 | 12 |
| Chaps a cowboy wears: derived from "chaparral" the misused word that
describes the wild brush of the semi desert areas the cowboys work
in.
Chap as a (young) person: it is common to refer to somebody young as
being wet behind the ears. If you go out whilst wet behind the ears
you will become chapped... hence young people are chapped, and
collectively we have chaps. (at least that was the explanation my
Commanding Officer once gave me, and I believed him implicitly :-)
/. Ian .\
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13.5 | chap = chap[man] | CSSE32::PHILPOTT | CSSE/Lang. & Tools, ZK02-1/N71 | Thu Nov 20 1986 09:46 | 9 |
| re .4: I forgot the ':-)'
Actually 'chap' is derived from the middle english word 'chapman', which
is in turn derived from 'ceapman': 'ceap' meaning 'trade', the word refers
to an [itinerant or market] trader. Since such traders in the middle ages
were frequently young, and known for their cheeky banter, the word has come
to apply to a young, and frequently cheeky, man.
/. Ian .\
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13.6 | chapparal a sticky buisness | RANCHO::RAH | Did I studduh? | Tue Dec 09 1986 14:29 | 5 |
| I can speak to the need for protection from chapparral,
especially California manzanita. I one speared myself
with a piece which had to be extracted surgically. Horses
also get cut by it, which is why we keep to the trails.
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13.7 | How 'bout fellows? | TRCO01::GAYNE | Cappucino anyone? | Wed Nov 18 1987 14:32 | 3 |
| Interesting replies, old FELLOWs (FELLAs).
/Les
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