happeningn.

Brit.

/ˈhap(ə)nɪŋ/,

/ˈhapn̩ɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ/

Forms: see happen v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happen v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < happen v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare happing n.²

1. The action of happen v.; occurrence (of an event), the fact of taking place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurring or happening

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1431 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 45/1 Gif it hapnys that the sayd toun..throuch falland case or hapnyng of ony maner cummys not to the sayd payment.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 255 He helis þame all on rawe, And all thurgh his false happenyng.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Dv^v By accidental, happenyng.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xvi. f. 59 Who doth not leaue the happening of lettes to the blindnesse of fortune.

1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A6 The euery daies hapning of such things.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 61 There are infinite chances against the happening of it, or odds that it will not happen.

1764 T. Bayes in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 376 The probability of any event is the ratio between the value at which an expectation depending on the happening of the event ought to be computed, and the value of the thing expected upon it's [sic] happening.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 217 Where an estate in remainder is limited in terms of contingency, on the happening of certain events.

1885 Law Times Rep. 52 684/1 Waiting for the happening of any future event.

1909 M. H. Dziewicki in J. Wyclif De Ente 261 The Blessed rejoice over the happening of Adam's sin, the occasion of their bliss.

1939 A. K. Kurtz & H. A. Edgerton Statist. Dict. 99 Mathematically independent, unaffected by the happening of another event or by the size of another variable. Also called independent, non-contingent, and uncontingent.

2002 Asia Afr. Intelligence Wire (Business Line) (Nexis) 8 Apr. The performance of the wagering agreement must depend upon the happening or non-happening of an uncertain event.

2. Something that happens or takes place; an event or occurrence (in modern use, often one that is significant or unusual); a chance. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > events

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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xvi. f. 60^v In like manner are the happeninges of thynges to come. For as al thinges that be to come are vncertaine vnto vs, so we hang them in suspense.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 169 No place is left to the happenynges of fortune.

1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 107 The many and strange alterings and happenings to Men.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 338 The Happenings must bear nearly the same Ratio to the Failures.

1896 Black & White 27 June 824/2 Before the final coorious happening, there was a fire in a croft of auld Applebird's.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 2/2 The Denshawi incident is not viewed by all exactly alike, but it was decidedly a regrettable happening.

1921 E. E. Cummings Let. 22 Apr. (1969) 75 The feria is..a double happening. There were the grounds..and there were the torros.

1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. 197 The progressive aspect (sometimes called the durative or continuous aspect) indicates a happening in progress.

2005 R. Douglas Night Song Last Tram 304 As we ate, Ma would tell me of the happenings at the big house she cleaned over in Hillhead.

3. Originally U.S.

a. A largely improvised or spontaneous performance intended as artistic display, originating in the U.S. avant-garde of the late 1950s, then widely used in 1960s popular culture. Later also in extended use.The term was introduced by Allan Kaprow (1927–2006), U.S. artist, whose work helped to establish the concept of performance art (see performance n. Compounds).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [noun]

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féerie1878

showboating1909

mirthquake1911

mirthquaker1921

icecapade1940

happening1959

stripagram1981

1958 A. Kaprow in Art News Oct. 57/1 These bold creators..will disclose entirely unheard of happenings and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies, seen in store windows and on the streets, and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents.]

1959 A. Kaprow Let. 28 May (Univ. Rutgers RG 04/16: Rec. Office President) Box 42, Folder 19 I think you are aware of the fact that I have given up the specific art of picture-making..for what I call the making of ‘situations’ (or ‘events’ or ‘happenings’).

1959 Nation (N.Y.) 24 Oct. 260/2 The first exhibition is not of painting but is an ‘event’ consisting of eighteen ‘happenings’ by Allan Kaprow.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 604/1 Happenings, usually staged in downtown lofts, were performances, improvised round basic ideas that left a good deal to chance and action on the night. Actors and décor mingled intimately with the audience.

1966 Observer 17 Apr. 11/4 Here are the long-term..effects of having the television cameras in the House... Politics comes to be regarded as a series of dramatic scenes. A Budget or a Bill is seen..as a happening.

1970 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 10 Tomorrow the 1,600 delegates will see a ‘happening’ called ‘Thank God We're Normal’ performed by 70 boys and girls from..comprehensive schools in London.

1997 Boston Globe 23 Oct. (Calendar section) 24 Wayne Koestenbaum's libretto is not about people but about icons. Thus we meet Jackie O at a happening at Andy Warhol's factory.

2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 May hs17 Niebla and his band moved to Paris and scraped a living playing gigs and working in conceptual art happenings with the painter Jaume Xifra.

b. spec. (concrete). A work of art consisting of an assemblage of everyday objects and images arranged to evoke an event or situation. Cf. installation n. Additions 3.The term is particularly associated with the work of U.S. pop artist James Dine (b. 1935) and others.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > other visual arts > [noun] > assemblage

assemblage1961

happening1961

1961 W. C. Seitz Art of Assemblage 88 James Dine, in a ‘happening’ named Car Crash..has dealt with the automobile.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 604/2 The room-sized collages called happenings or situations are works of art that actually simulate the environment.

1990 Leonardo 23 300 He uses [photo]copiers in happenings as a tool for mass-media multireproduction.

2002 Business Times Singapore (Nexis) 20 Apr. Lee displays an eclectic variety of fibre-work in the form of collages, weaves and ‘thread happenings’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

happeningadj.

Brit.

/ˈhap(ə)nɪŋ/,

/ˈhapn̩ɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ/

Forms: see happen v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happen v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < happen v. + -ing suffix².

1. That happens; occurring; (also) †chancing (obsolete). In modern use chiefly: that is actually or currently taking place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > occurring or happening

undergrowinga1440

occurrentc1484

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contingent1532

occursive1592

occurring1627

coming1697

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 229/1 Happenyng, aduenant.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Lj^v An ague may be the happenyng cause.

1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ (P.R.O.: SP 12/289) iv. pr. vi. f. 65 Of the succession of Chaunce, of hapning Luckes.

1872 Sunday Mag. 297/1 He is tried by the pressure of the hour, and by the hurry of the happening events sometimes even more than by the general aspect of affairs.

1915 Constructive Q. 3 879 This Darwinist and Marxist avant la lettre is a precursor of the return to religion, a return that in our days we more feel as a coming, than see as a happening, thing.

1999 L. A. Rickels Vampire Lect. 300 His perfection of the ‘adaptation of selective breeding’ as a happening event that is present tense.

2. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Casual, chance, occasional. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]

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happenstance1905

1621 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Hart) sig. C2 Hapning haires, blawin widthersuns aback.

1655 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1881) II. 312 Gif they bring thame in at some happining tymes.

1858 J. Colquhoun Salmon Casts & Stray Shots (ed. 2) i. 16 I..sauntered down Bochastle Heath, more for the pleasure of the evening walk than from hope of a happening fish.

1872 N. Jenkins in G. Rooper Tales & Sketches iv. 90 We'll hae the chance to tread up a happening bird if we walk wide.

1900 Songs & Select. Album Edinb. Angling Club 202 On arriving at his ‘water’, the keeper—as the tone of keepers now is—despondingly informed him that there is ‘nae head (shoal) o' fish’, although at the utmost ‘there may be a happenin' beast’.

1958 J. Barth End of Road iii. 27 On Wednesday after my interview, when I woke and consulted him with a happening glance, his pain was simply Bacchic!

3. slang (originally U.S.). Characterized by the most exciting, lively, and up-to-the-minute action or style; currently in vogue, fashionable, trendy. Cf. happen v. 6b, happening n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]

in (also into) request?1574

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fashional?1607

of request1613

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à la mode1642

all the mode1651

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OK1869

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à la page1930

go1937

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hip1939

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way-in1960

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cred1987

1965 Variety 13 Oct. 52 (advt.) All of it is happening on the ‘happening place’ in New York television, WPIX TV/11.

1967 Billboard 25 Mar. 22/5 Clearly, the Cafe Au Go Go seems to be the happening place for today's music.

1977 C. McFadden Serial li. 109 Who could live anywhere else? Marin's this whole high-energy trip with all these happening people.

1987 Sunday Express Mag. 1 Feb. 13/3 ‘Me and George Michael’, she adds, lapsing into pop-speak, ‘may turn out to be a pretty happening scene.’

2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 8 Oct. (Seven Days section) 10/6 Michael, apparently, is a ‘Lad-Dad’..Like ‘chick lit’, like ‘middle youth’, this is one of those transgeneric labels that claims to define something new and happening in contemporary culture.

2010 A. Urquhart Forgotten Highlander i. 24 The Palais was a happening place to be and had a great house band.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	happening
释义	happeningn. Brit. /ˈhap(ə)nɪŋ/, /ˈhapn̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ/ Forms: see happen v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happen v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < happen v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare happing n.² 1. The action of happen v.; occurrence (of an event), the fact of taking place. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurring or happening chance1297 befallingc1374 betidingc1374 occasionc1390 happening1431 turna1475 event1601 cadence1603 turning up1628 eveniencya1646 cadency1647 coming1651 occurrence1725 eventuation1728 encounter1870 occurrency1920 1431 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 45/1 Gif it hapnys that the sayd toun..throuch falland case or hapnyng of ony maner cummys not to the sayd payment. a1450 York Plays (1885) 255 He helis þame all on rawe, And all thurgh his false happenyng. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Dv^v By accidental, happenyng. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xvi. f. 59 Who doth not leaue the happening of lettes to the blindnesse of fortune. 1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A6 The euery daies hapning of such things. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 61 There are infinite chances against the happening of it, or odds that it will not happen. 1764 T. Bayes in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 376 The probability of any event is the ratio between the value at which an expectation depending on the happening of the event ought to be computed, and the value of the thing expected upon it's [sic] happening. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 217 Where an estate in remainder is limited in terms of contingency, on the happening of certain events. 1885 Law Times Rep. 52 684/1 Waiting for the happening of any future event. 1909 M. H. Dziewicki in J. Wyclif De Ente 261 The Blessed rejoice over the happening of Adam's sin, the occasion of their bliss. 1939 A. K. Kurtz & H. A. Edgerton Statist. Dict. 99 Mathematically independent, unaffected by the happening of another event or by the size of another variable. Also called independent, non-contingent, and uncontingent. 2002 Asia Afr. Intelligence Wire (Business Line) (Nexis) 8 Apr. The performance of the wagering agreement must depend upon the happening or non-happening of an uncertain event. 2. Something that happens or takes place; an event or occurrence (in modern use, often one that is significant or unusual); a chance. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event weird971 redeOE thingOE limpc1200 casea1250 tidingc1275 timinga1325 being?c1400 incident?1462 advenement1490 occurrent1523 accidenta1525 occurrence1539 affair1550 event1554 happening1561 événement1567 success1588 betide1590 circumstance1592 arrivage1603 eveniency1660 occurrency1671 betider1674 befalling1839 whet1849 intermezzo1851 transpiration1908 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > events fare1340 happening1561 action1651 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xvi. f. 60^v In like manner are the happeninges of thynges to come. For as al thinges that be to come are vncertaine vnto vs, so we hang them in suspense. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 169 No place is left to the happenynges of fortune. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 107 The many and strange alterings and happenings to Men. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 338 The Happenings must bear nearly the same Ratio to the Failures. 1896 Black & White 27 June 824/2 Before the final coorious happening, there was a fire in a croft of auld Applebird's. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 2/2 The Denshawi incident is not viewed by all exactly alike, but it was decidedly a regrettable happening. 1921 E. E. Cummings Let. 22 Apr. (1969) 75 The feria is..a double happening. There were the grounds..and there were the torros. 1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. 197 The progressive aspect (sometimes called the durative or continuous aspect) indicates a happening in progress. 2005 R. Douglas Night Song Last Tram 304 As we ate, Ma would tell me of the happenings at the big house she cleaned over in Hillhead. 3. Originally U.S. a. A largely improvised or spontaneous performance intended as artistic display, originating in the U.S. avant-garde of the late 1950s, then widely used in 1960s popular culture. Later also in extended use.The term was introduced by Allan Kaprow (1927–2006), U.S. artist, whose work helped to establish the concept of performance art (see performance n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun] playeOE gameeOE disportc1380 sportc1443 museryc1450 pastime?1473 gaud1587 playgame1596 exercise1622 amusement1632 evagation1638 retirement1641 divertisement1642 diversiona1684 ploya1689 lounge1788 divertissement1804 happening1959 letterboxing1977 timepass1982 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [noun] antic1580 wayang1671 light entertainment1787 take-off1845 féerie1878 showboating1909 mirthquake1911 mirthquaker1921 icecapade1940 happening1959 stripagram1981 1958 A. Kaprow in Art News Oct. 57/1 These bold creators..will disclose entirely unheard of happenings and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies, seen in store windows and on the streets, and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents.] 1959 A. Kaprow Let. 28 May (Univ. Rutgers RG 04/16: Rec. Office President) Box 42, Folder 19 I think you are aware of the fact that I have given up the specific art of picture-making..for what I call the making of ‘situations’ (or ‘events’ or ‘happenings’). 1959 Nation (N.Y.) 24 Oct. 260/2 The first exhibition is not of painting but is an ‘event’ consisting of eighteen ‘happenings’ by Allan Kaprow. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 604/1 Happenings, usually staged in downtown lofts, were performances, improvised round basic ideas that left a good deal to chance and action on the night. Actors and décor mingled intimately with the audience. 1966 Observer 17 Apr. 11/4 Here are the long-term..effects of having the television cameras in the House... Politics comes to be regarded as a series of dramatic scenes. A Budget or a Bill is seen..as a happening. 1970 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 10 Tomorrow the 1,600 delegates will see a ‘happening’ called ‘Thank God We're Normal’ performed by 70 boys and girls from..comprehensive schools in London. 1997 Boston Globe 23 Oct. (Calendar section) 24 Wayne Koestenbaum's libretto is not about people but about icons. Thus we meet Jackie O at a happening at Andy Warhol's factory. 2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 May hs17 Niebla and his band moved to Paris and scraped a living playing gigs and working in conceptual art happenings with the painter Jaume Xifra. b. spec. (concrete). A work of art consisting of an assemblage of everyday objects and images arranged to evoke an event or situation. Cf. installation n. Additions 3.The term is particularly associated with the work of U.S. pop artist James Dine (b. 1935) and others. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > other visual arts > [noun] > assemblage assemblage1961 happening1961 1961 W. C. Seitz Art of Assemblage 88 James Dine, in a ‘happening’ named Car Crash..has dealt with the automobile. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 604/2 The room-sized collages called happenings or situations are works of art that actually simulate the environment. 1990 Leonardo 23 300 He uses [photo]copiers in happenings as a tool for mass-media multireproduction. 2002 Business Times Singapore (Nexis) 20 Apr. Lee displays an eclectic variety of fibre-work in the form of collages, weaves and ‘thread happenings’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). happeningadj. Brit. /ˈhap(ə)nɪŋ/, /ˈhapn̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ/ Forms: see happen v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happen v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < happen v. + -ing suffix². 1. That happens; occurring; (also) †chancing (obsolete). In modern use chiefly: that is actually or currently taking place. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > occurring or happening undergrowinga1440 occurrentc1484 happening1530 contingent1532 occursive1592 occurring1627 coming1697 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 229/1 Happenyng, aduenant. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Lj^v An ague may be the happenyng cause. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ (P.R.O.: SP 12/289) iv. pr. vi. f. 65 Of the succession of Chaunce, of hapning Luckes. 1872 Sunday Mag. 297/1 He is tried by the pressure of the hour, and by the hurry of the happening events sometimes even more than by the general aspect of affairs. 1915 Constructive Q. 3 879 This Darwinist and Marxist avant la lettre is a precursor of the return to religion, a return that in our days we more feel as a coming, than see as a happening, thing. 1999 L. A. Rickels Vampire Lect. 300 His perfection of the ‘adaptation of selective breeding’ as a happening event that is present tense. 2. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Casual, chance, occasional. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] byc1050 casualc1374 fortuitc1374 fortunelc1374 fortunousc1374 causelessc1386 adventurousc1405 accidental1502 fortunable1509 happya1522 chanceable1549 occasional1569 accidentary1581 emergent1593 streave1598 contingent1604 happening1621 incidental1644 lucky1648 sporadical1654 temerarious1660 spontaneous1664 incidentarya1670 chance1676 antrin?1725 fortuitous1806 sporadic1821 windfall1845 chanced1853 blind1873 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 1621 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Hart) sig. C2 Hapning haires, blawin widthersuns aback. 1655 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1881) II. 312 Gif they bring thame in at some happining tymes. 1858 J. Colquhoun Salmon Casts & Stray Shots (ed. 2) i. 16 I..sauntered down Bochastle Heath, more for the pleasure of the evening walk than from hope of a happening fish. 1872 N. Jenkins in G. Rooper Tales & Sketches iv. 90 We'll hae the chance to tread up a happening bird if we walk wide. 1900 Songs & Select. Album Edinb. Angling Club 202 On arriving at his ‘water’, the keeper—as the tone of keepers now is—despondingly informed him that there is ‘nae head (shoal) o' fish’, although at the utmost ‘there may be a happenin' beast’. 1958 J. Barth End of Road iii. 27 On Wednesday after my interview, when I woke and consulted him with a happening glance, his pain was simply Bacchic! 3. slang (originally U.S.). Characterized by the most exciting, lively, and up-to-the-minute action or style; currently in vogue, fashionable, trendy. Cf. happen v. 6b, happening n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] in (also into) request?1574 bonfacion1584 fashional?1607 of request1613 fashionablea1627 à la mode1642 all the mode1651 modish1661 in mode1664 timeish1676 of vogue1678 voguea1695 mody1701 alamodic1753 much the mode1767 tonish1778 go1784 stylish1800 bang-up1810 tippy1810 varmint1823 up to the knocker1844 gyvera1866 OK1869 fly1879 swagger1879 doggy1885 faddy1885 fantoosh1920 voguish1927 voguey1928 à la page1930 go1937 hard1938 hip1939 down1952 swinging1958 a-go-go1960 way-in1960 yé-yé1960 trendy1962 with-it1962 go-go1963 happening1965 mod1965 funky1967 together1968 fash1977 cred1987 1965 Variety 13 Oct. 52 (advt.) All of it is happening on the ‘happening place’ in New York television, WPIX TV/11. 1967 Billboard 25 Mar. 22/5 Clearly, the Cafe Au Go Go seems to be the happening place for today's music. 1977 C. McFadden Serial li. 109 Who could live anywhere else? Marin's this whole high-energy trip with all these happening people. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 1 Feb. 13/3 ‘Me and George Michael’, she adds, lapsing into pop-speak, ‘may turn out to be a pretty happening scene.’ 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 8 Oct. (Seven Days section) 10/6 Michael, apparently, is a ‘Lad-Dad’..Like ‘chick lit’, like ‘middle youth’, this is one of those transgeneric labels that claims to define something new and happening in contemporary culture. 2010 A. Urquhart Forgotten Highlander i. 24 The Palais was a happening place to be and had a great house band. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1431adj.1530
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