hap
IPA: hˈæp
noun
- (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
- (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
- (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
- Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
- (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
- Initialism of hazardous air pollutant.
verb
- (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
- (transitive, literary) To happen to.
- (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
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Examples of "hap" in Sentences
- The crash happed about 3 a.m.
- General Hap Arnold headed the AAF.
- The information was in a hap hazard state.
- Concel tually this is similar to what hap.
- The one vehicle rollover happed about 5 40 p.m.
- The seven incidents have all happed in that area.
- Make . . . the . . . the old folks hap . . . happy?
- It's just happed at a difficult time for us right now.
- We need to determine which valid word 'hap' should match.
- O my lord, this hap is what I dreamt last night; and, when I awoke,
- Then ask one of the kids to share something that happed during the morning.
- Once learned, the delicate techniques of Hap Ki Do can overcome brute force.
- Wonderful, wasn't it, that it was her "hap" to light on a part of the field belonging to Boaz?
- What would have happed if we had said no and then been told that he was on the organ donation register
- And Uther with his men drew to the mount, and had lost in the fight his dear knights, full seven hundred-his hap was the worse!
- How then had a man so singularly drained of hap as the 57-year-old Israeli ended up controlling Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham United?
- Thus happiness, according to the original use of the term, is that which happens, or comes to one by a hap, that is, by an outward befalling, or favorable condition.
- My ire at Spitzer is partly triggered by the embarrassing record of his hand-picked successor, David Paterson, an accidental governor who put the "hap" in "hapless."
- But at the deliuerie of the monie, and by a certeine kind of hap, the Romans name was preserued at that time from such dishonor and ignominie as was likelie to haue insued.
- A culture that discourages its artists from creating bold simulacrums and wild enchantments is one opting for dull, stable sleeps and rote, untransformed wakefulness. john baker: This from Allen Mathews: The word "hap" means luck or ...