Cryptic crossword clue
Bloke to crack jaw 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CHAP

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What does CHAP mean?

CHAP noun
  1. (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
  2. A customer, a buyer.
  3. A child.
CHAP noun
  1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  2. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  3. A blow; a rap.
CHAP verb
  1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. To strike, knock.
CHAP noun
  1. (often in the plural) The jaw.
  2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
CHAP noun
  1. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
  2. A section of a social or religious body.
  3. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
  4. A decretal epistle.
  5. A location or compartment.

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