Definition of "chaps" []

• Heavy leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by ranch hands to protect their legs. (noun-plural)

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• "Then his fringed buckskin "chaps" went; in their place a pair of dreadful grey cloth trousers."
• "He always wore a strange mixture of civilized and savage clothes – fringed buckskin "chaps," beaded moccasins, a blue flannel shirt, a scarlet silk handkerchief knotted around his throat, a wide-brimmed cowboy hat with a rattlesnake skin as a"
• "The chaps from the University of Rutland at Belvoir push their glasses up their noses."