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hap / hap/ archaic • n. luck; fortune. ∎  a chance occurrence, esp. an event that is considered unlucky.• v. (happed, hap·ping) [intr.] come about by chance: what can hap to him worthy to be deemed evil? ∎  have the fortune or luck to do something: where'er I happ'd to roam.

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