chappies

plural of chappie, British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chappies
Noun
  • After a lengthy, wide-ranging search for their next coach, the Portland Trail Blazers have chosen one of the guys already at the front of the line.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • These guys, everyone has each other’s backs.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Among hominins and other mammals, females typically exhibit two X chromosomes and males carry an X and a Y chromosome.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • In most species of jacana—there are eight in all—the males sit on the eggs and the females do the murdering.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • That is some business that the gentlemen are discussing.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • And that, ladies and gentlemen, has to be one of the most surreal paragraphs ever printed in The New York Times.
    Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • Kara and Ruthye figure out the Brigands are trafficking young women for dastardly purposes, giving them yet another reason to smack some dudes around.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 June 2026
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“Chappies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chappies. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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