💄 A lip balm 🏷️ A brand name

ChapStick

5 2.5

A brand of lip balm in a small stick that protects lips

proper noun
/ˈtʃæpˌstɪk/

: ChapStick

I always keep a stick of ChapStick in my bag to prevent my lips from getting chapped during winter.
cherry ChapStick
forgot my ChapStick
need ChapStick

Examples

Claritin or Zyrtec? Tylenol or Advil? Carmex or ChapStick?

Blog text (13)
Unfortunately, I left my Chapstick in New York.

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Need some ChapStick? - Yeah.

Made of Honor (2008)
- Can you bring me my ChapStick?

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Pockets, you got any, uh, ChapStick?

Standing Still (2005)
I left my ChapStick.

Greenberg (2010)
She swipes ChapStick across her lips and turns to leave.

Fiction book (1996)
When they kissed, her mouth tasted of tobacco and apricot ChapStick, and her hair reminded him of the smell of cloakrooms in the wintertime.

Fiction book (1994)
After spending the day outside, I applied some ChapStick to soothe my dry lips.
She offered me her ChapStick since my lips were feeling really dry after the long flight.

Synonyms

balm

vsChapStick

16 3.7

A soft medicine that you put on the skin to heal or soothe irritation

is limited to use on lips rather than the wider skin areas

lip balm

vsChapStick

9 1.4

A soft product you put on lips to stop dryness

is the specific branded name rather than the general product term

Surface Forms

ChapStick main

Morphology

ChapStick = chap + stick (semi-transparent) = chap + stick

The brand name is transparently formed from 'chap' + 'stick', but as a proper noun (trademark) its referential status is that of a brand rather than a descriptive compound.

Etymology

ChapStick is the brand name made from chap, meaning 'chapped' or 'dry or cracked', and stick, since the original product was a small stick to rub on the lips. That's why ChapStick is the name of a lip balm brand.