hap

hap  (hp)

n.

1. Fortune; chance.

2. A happening; an occurrence.

intr.v. happed, hap·ping, haps

To happen.

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[Middle English, from Old Norse happ; see kob- in Indo-European roots.]

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hap¹

n Archaic

1. luck; chance

2. an occurrence

vb haps, happing, happed

(intr) an archaic word for happen

[from Old Norse happ good luck; related to Old English gehæplic convenient, Old Slavonic kobǔ fate]

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hap² Scot and eastern English dialect

vb (tr)

to cover up; wrap up warmly

n

a covering of any kind

[perhaps of Norse origin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hap - an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life" chance event, fortuity, accident, stroke - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
Verb	1.	hap - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" come about, happen, occur, take place, go on, pass off, fall out, pass recrudesce, develop, break - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" come up, arise - result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" result - come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting" intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children" transpire - come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week" give - occur; "what gives?" operate - happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?" supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected development proceed, go - follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" fall - occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism" develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly"; recur, repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" come off, go over, go off - happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?" roll around, come around - happen regularly; "Christmas rolled around again" materialise, materialize, happen - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana) bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" coincide, concur - happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided" backfire, backlash, recoil - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" chance - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" break - happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" fall, shine, strike - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" turn out - prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right" contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time