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Noun
/ˈCHapˌbo͝ok/,
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chapbooks, plural;
  1. A small pamphlet containing tales, ballads, or tracts, sold by peddlers

  2. A small paperback booklet, typically containing poems or fiction

  1. Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the 19th century. No exact definition can be applied.
  2. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts
  3. Small, inexpensive books produced from the 17^th century until today, originally sold by "chapmen", peddlers, and hawkers.
  4. A small book or pamphlet containing ballads, poems, popular tales or tracts, etc.
  5. A cheaply printed book of the kind sold by street vendors in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  6. a small book, often in pamphlet size.
  7. Inexpensive paper bound books primarily intended for children and sold on streets by `chapmen` from a shallow box supported by a cloth tie around the chapman`s neck much as cigarettes used to be sold in clubs
  8. A small, usually paperback, book of poetry or a religious tract or somesuch.
  9. A small, usually pocket-sized book. Most often, chapbooks contain poetry, but they can contain short narratives, lyrics, etc.
  10. A small, stapled (saddle-stitched) or string-bound book or pamphlet of stories.
  11. A small booklet of poems, ballads, or stories, originally sold by traveling peddlers
  12. a small, stapled pamphlet, usually less than 100 pages. Before modern publishing, chapbooks were distributed primarily by chapmen (peddlers), rather than booksellers.
  13. Also Chapter book. Short booklet, often a children’s book. Originally a small book or pamphlet of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational content sold by street merchants, known as ‘chapmen’.