Usually means: Accidentally encounter or discover something.
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  1. happen upon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. happen upon: Collins English Dictionary
  3. happen upon: Vocabulary.com
  4. happen upon: Wiktionary
  5. happen upon: Dictionary.com
  6. happen upon: Rhymezone
  7. happen upon: Free Dictionary
  8. happen upon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. happen upon: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happen upon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happen upon: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (happen upon)

verb:  To accidentally encounter a person or situation; to chance upon, happen on or stumble across.

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