Usually means: Skin cracking due to dryness.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word chapping:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. chapping: Merriam-Webster
  2. chapping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chapping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chapping: Vocabulary.com
  5. chapping: Wordnik
  6. chapping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chapping: Wiktionary
  8. Chapping, chapping: Dictionary.com
  9. Chapping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Chapping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. chapping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. chapping: FreeDictionary.org
  13. chapping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chapping: Legal dictionary
  2. chapping: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chapping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chapping: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. chapping: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chapping: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chap as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (CHAP)

noun:  (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
noun:  (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
noun:  (Southern US) A child.
verb:  (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
verb:  (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
noun:  A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
noun:  (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
noun:  (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
noun:  (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
noun:  One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
noun:  A surname from Khmer.
noun:  (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). [(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.]
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
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