accident

accident
   1. involuntary urination or defecation
   Literally, anything which happens, whence, in common use, anything undesirable:
    I've never punished him, the way our mothers and nurses did, when he has an 'accident'. (M. McCarthy, 1963)
   2. an unplanned pregnancy
   To treat impregnation as though it were an unforeseeable happening may seem unduly innocent or cavalier:
    I have the means to prevent any... accident. I promise I'll be very careful. (Styron, 1976)
   A child born under these circumstances may also be called an accident.

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