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hap | hyp |

As a noun hap

is pah.

As an initialism hyp is

harvard/yale/princeton.

hap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hap, . The verb is from (etyl) happen, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
    • 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.
  • * Spenser
    • whether art it was or heedless hap
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Cursed be good haps', and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on ' haps .
  • * 1851 , :
    • 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.
    Derived terms
    * hapful * haphazard * hapless * haply * happen * happenstance * happy * hapsome * mayhap * mishap * perhaps
    See also
    * what's the haps

    Verb

    (happ)
  • (literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
  • *
  • (literary) To happen to.
  • *

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) 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.

    • Verb

    (happ)
  • (dialect) To wrap or clothe.
  • * Dr. J. Brown
    • The surgeon happed her up carefully.
  • *

    • Anagrams

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    hyp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (entertainment) hypnotism; hypnotist
    • A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats.
    The hyp is booked through the end of the month.
  • (mathematics) hypotenuse
  • hypochondria
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps .

    Alternative forms

    *

    References

    * (entertainment) Usage in both ways in Swift

    Verb

    (hypp)
  • (colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.
    • (Washington Irving)

    Anagrams

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