Usually means: Chance, luck, or fortune occurrence.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word hap:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hap, hap: Wordnik
  7. hap: Wiktionary
  8. hap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hap: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. HAP: Dictionary.com
  12. hap: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. HAP, Hap (nickname), Hap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hap: Rhymezone
  17. Hap, hap (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. HAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. hap: Free Dictionary
  21. hap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Hap: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. hap: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HAP: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  2. HAP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. HAP: Acronym Finder
  2. hap: A Word A Day
  3. HAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. hap: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HAP: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hap, hap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. HAP: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See happed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (HAP)

noun:  (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
noun:  (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
verb:  (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
verb:  (transitive, literary) To happen to.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) 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:  (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
noun:  Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
noun:  (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
noun:  Initialism of hazardous air pollutant.

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