Meanings
plural Chapins
- A surname.
Chapin met Nixon during his third year at USC. A year later, H.R. Halderman recruited Chapin to work on Nixon’s 1962 unsuccessful California gubernatorial campaign, and Chapin brought Segretti, and Ziegler along.
2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024
Origin
* As a Spanish and French surname, from the noun chapín (“type of overshoe”). * As an English surname, variant of Chopin, also found as the variants Chopping, Chappin.
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Cite this entry
Chapin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chapin
“Chapin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chapin. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chapin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chapin.
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