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Chap informally cooking tubers (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

buster

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'chap informally' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'cooking tubers' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram.
'tubers' anagrammed gives 'BUSTER'.

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(Other definitions for buster that I've seen before include "- - Keaton, silent star" , "-- Keaton, comic actor" , "-- Keaton, US silent film actor" , "Keaton or Crabbe" , "Form of address to man" .)

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