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happy cornered

happy cornered is the simple past and past participle of happy corner.

Meaning of happy corner

Verb

happy corner (third-person singular simple present happy corners, present participle happy cornering, simple past and past participle happy cornered)

  1. (Hong-Kong) To perform such a prank on someone.
    • Hong Kong is many things. It is having all the showers busy in your hostel at 2 a.m. It is taking every photo with a “victory” sign. It is singing karaoke until 6 a.m. and taking the KCR home. It is falling asleep on the KCR and waking up in Lo Wu. It is running around “happy cornering” each other.2004 April, “Let's enjoy life in this crazy and unique city”, in Varsity

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Questions about happy cornered

What is happy cornered the simple past and past participle of?
Happy cornered is the simple past and past participle of happy corner.

Words near happy cornered in the dictionary

  1. Happy Christmas
  2. Happy Christmases
  3. happy clapper
  4. happy clappers
  5. happy corner
  6. happy cornered
  7. happy cornering
  8. happy corners
  9. happy day scenario
  10. happy day scenarios
  11. happy days

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Adapted from Wiktionary: happy cornered (page history and authors); happy corner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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