hap

1. 1

   A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.archaicuncountable

2. 2

   A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.archaiccountable

   • 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.

syn. serendipity

1. 1

   To happen; to befall; to chance.archaicintransitiveliterary

   • "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."
2. 2

   To happen to.archaicliterarytransitive

   • What meaneth June, to hap us every year.

1. 1

   Happenings; events; goings-on.archaicin-pluralslang

   • 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!"

1. 1

   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.PennsylvaniaScotlandUK

1. 1

   To wrap, clothe.archaicdialectal

   • 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.

1. 1

   Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.archaic