Meaning of Hap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Happenings; events; goings-on.
   archaic, in-plural, slang
2. 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.
   Pennsylvania, Scotland, UK, Western, archaic
3. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
   archaic
4. Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
   abbreviation, alt-of
5. A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
   archaic, uncountable
6. Initialism of hazardous air pollutant.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
   archaic, countable

Equivalents

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.”

“URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

“[I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]”

“He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.”

“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!"”

“The purpose of this program is to reduce 75% of the cancer incidence resulting from area sources (defined as stationary sources which emit less than 10 tons of a single HAP or 25 tons of a combination of HAPs) of hazardous air pollutants in urban areas.”

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