{
    "term": "chap",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to talk about a man in a friendly way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He isn't such a bad chap really."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Come on, chaps, let’s go now!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a decent sort of chap."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poor old chap was very shaken by the experience."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clever", "decent", "good"],
                "phrases": ["not (such) a bad chap", "sort of chap"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tʃæp/",
                "audio": "ch/chap/chap__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tʃæp/",
                "audio": "ch/chap/chap__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (denoting a buyer or customer): abbreviation of chapman ‘pedlar’. The current sense dates from the early 18th cent."
}