Thesaurus results for CHAPPIE

chappie

noun

ˈcha-pē

Definition of chappie

British

as in guy

an adult male human being a good-humored chappie from the London office

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Noun

Then Leigh noticed a skinny guy clad in a ratty Daniel Johnston T-shirt, his hair a feral mess.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
There’s more pressure on a guy who’s explicitly out there to fair-catch the ball.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of guy

Noun

Is there a kind and polite way to tell this gentleman to stop telling me jokes?

— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
And so Eton’s uniform became codified around gentleman’s fashions of the 1800s, even though the dress code was not made official until 1964.

— Eva Wolchover, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of gentleman

Noun

The second, a runway show in February, expanded upon its connection to new money by fashioning buff male models as oligarchs and über thin female ones as their party girl acolytes.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
The mostly male, mostly young consumers of this content came up in the pandemic days of meme stock windfalls, speculative crypto investments, and hypebeast product drops.

— Adam Erace, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of male

Noun

Even as Swift shines in the light of holy matrimony, there are still plenty of lame dudes out there for Taylor to crush across three-minute pop masterstrokes — and, God-willing, there always will be.

— Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
Just as O’Malley and Rahill’s work is infatuated with toxic masculinity and fratty hopecore, Bensinger’s is obsessed with sheepish dude-empaths hiding beneath layers of uneasy bravado.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

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