noun
- chance occurrences or events; things that happen by luck
Usage: archaic or literary
verb
- happens; occurs by chance
Usage: archaic
Examples
- The old poet wrote of life’s strange haps and mishaps.
- Whatever haps, we must be ready to face it.
- She believed that good haps would come to those who waited.
- The story tells of the haps that befell the wandering knight.
- If it haps that we meet again, I’ll remember this day.