hap
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Is hap a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.archaicuncountable
2. (countable) A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.Examples: "Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield."; "And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap."; "Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne."Synonyms: hazardarchaiccountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.Examples: ""But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,...."; ""We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap.""Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire, bechance, befall, belimp, betide, betimearchaicintransitiveliterary
2. (transitive, literary) To happen to.Examples: "What meaneth June, to hap us every year."archaicliterarytransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. [from 20th c.]Examples: "Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!""Synonyms: occurrence, affairsarchaicin-pluralslang
noun (English)
1. (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.PennsylvaniaScotlandUKWesternarchaic
verb (English)
1. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.Examples: "Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake."; "The surgeon happed her up carefully."; "The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot."archaicdialectal
noun (English)
1. (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.Synonyms: NPabbreviationalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary