An accident, mistake, or problem.
Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
Ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest, Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.
From Middle English mishap, myshappe, myssehappe, equivalent to mis- + hap.
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