Chaps vs Caps - What's the difference?
chaps | caps |
(chap)
Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.
(always plural ) Capital letters; capitals.
(cap)
As nouns the difference between chaps and caps
is that chaps is plural of lang=en while caps is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between chaps and caps
is that chaps is third-person singular of chap while caps is third-person singular of cap.As a proper noun CHAPS
is acronym of clearing house automated payment system:|lang=en a method of same-day banking transfer.As an initialism CAPS is
n-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid.chaps
English
Etymology 1
From (chap).Noun
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Short for American Spanish chaparreras.Noun
(wikipedia chaps) (en-plural noun)- If you are going to use that chainsaw, why don't you put on a pair of chaps ?
- Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.