Meanings
nounafterhaps pl (plural only)
- nonce wordpluralplural onlysubsequent happenings.
But in my triumph I lost sight
1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Ivy-Wife' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 139
Origin
From after- + haps.
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