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Champers
- unknown - Colloquialism for champagne
Champing
- verb - chafe at the bit, like horses
- chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich"
Champion
- adjective -
- a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"
- holding first place in a contest; "a champion show dog"; "a prizewinning wine"
- protect or fight for as a champion
- someone who fights for a cause
- someone who has won first place in a competition
Chancels
- noun - area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
Chancers
- unknown - A gang of (normally unscrupulous) people who will gamble the benefit outweighs the risk - they 'chance their arm'. An individual chancer is not necessarily a criminal e.g. a jaywalker.
- unscrupulous opportunists
Chancery
- noun - a court with jurisdiction in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
Chancier
- adjective - of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
- subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
Chancing
- verb - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
Chancres
- noun - a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Chandler
- noun - a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints
- a retail dealer in provisions and supplies
- United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)