noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dear
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My dear chap you couldn't put them in a work of fiction.
good
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So bear it in mind, there's a good chap .
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He's a good chap , but he's mostly tight.
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Work on the details for me, Paul, there's a good chap .
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Sylvia knows of a good chap .
little
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The little chap is presumed alive and well - although anything's possible.
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A grand little chap called Willie Workman was largely responsible.
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I always thought he was a lonely little chap .
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The C100 is a squat little chap on the ground.
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He watched warily as the little fat chap with bits of paper in his hat leapt to his feet.
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The wife and I are shy types but our little chap is fearless.
nice
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As nice a chap as you could hope to meet.
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He was a nice chap called Roland who entertained us with such finesse on his flute and oboe.
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He seems a terribly nice old chap .
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He says that he seemed like a nice chap .
old
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All these setbacks didn't matter, old chap , because the referee only has eyes for the big boys.
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Then my advice to you, old chap , is to go back.
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Don't call us, old chap , such a dashed shame.
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These old chaps have some substance in the universe.
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However, old chap , I have some news that may prove unsettling.
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Ladies of the night dancing on tables among the champagne bottles while watched lecherously by older , affluent-looking chaps .
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He seems a terribly nice old chap .
other
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We used to hear such stories - you know - from the other chaps .
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Chaps like me taking to other chaps like me.
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The other chap had a skin graft.
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I don't know the other chap , the bearded one.
poor
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But it was decades ago - why the poor chap !
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The condescension can not be denied: look at how hard the poor chaps strive to keep up with the nuclear Joneses.
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The poor chap is on his uppers, by all accounts, reduced to touting himself on the after-dinner circuit.
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But after all the poor chap had been worried - I couldn't blame him.
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He copped for everything, poor chap .
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I warn them all not to take her seriously, but they all do, poor chaps !
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Perhaps he'd even hoped so, poor chap .
young
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There was that young chap Brian something; even Douglas had heard about him.
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Oh, that young chap , Manna Dey!
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He says it's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap .
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The Minister is a friendly young chap .
■ VERB
see
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At any rate, it's apparently vital that I see this chap .
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Then you would know when you saw the chap in the 1984 Cortina he was the company's worst driver.
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Our chaps can't see their chaps, but their chaps can't see ours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being a cautious kind of chap , I decided to make a phone call before reaching before reaching for my cheque book.
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Mock's have a new chap on the bacon counter.
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My dear chap you couldn't put them in a work of fiction.
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Once some one has established themselves as being the right sort of chap , then their name crops up time and again.
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Stella stood in the middle of the field talking to the only chap properly attired in shorts and jersey.
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The chap on the left is James Stuart, and on the right we have his son, Charles Stuart.
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The other chap had a skin graft.