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The phrase "a chap named" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts to introduce a person, often in storytelling or casual conversation.
Example: "There was a chap named Tom who always had the best stories to tell."
Alternatives: "a guy called" or "a fellow named".
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– was a chap named Tony Blair.
And now a chap named "Curtis Walker" is warming up the crowd.
Storyville personified these dilemmas, and this demography, in a chap named Walter, whose answers were No and Yes respectively.
A chap named David Ingram was among several men put involuntarily ashore in Mexico in 1568 by the privateer Capt.
A chap named Jameel Syed was showing off an app that transformed numbers measuring the popularity of Justin Bieber into a groovy electronic track.
Now the team is being sold by John McMullen to a chap named Steinbrenner, who is known for rebuilding the Yankees.
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One day, for the fun of it, she threw a shell at her supervisor, a handsome chap named John J. Barry.
Originally a fragrance house, Lancôme was founded by a French chap named Armand Petitjean back in 1935.
Instead the girl took up with an undistinguished chap named Bob Harris, a Jew from N.Y.
(Little, Brown, $10.95). A book of illustrations in which the game is to find a ubiquitous chap named Waldo.
When Guy Haines sits next to a talkative chap named Bruno, little does he know his fellow passenger is a psychopath eager to swap murders with an equally disgruntled soul.
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