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Answer for the clue "Cool, in the 50's ", 3 letters:
hep

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Word definitions for hep in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"aware, up-to-date," first recorded 1908 in "Saturday Evening Post," but said to be underworld slang, of unknown origin. Variously said to have been the name of "a fabulous detective who operated in Cincinnati" [Louis E. Jackson and C.R. Hellyer, "A Vocabulary ...

Usage examples of hep.

I left Atlanta, I was in the middle of my vaccinations for hep A and B.

Nick De Profundis, the company lounge lizard, has surprised everybody by changing, inside the phone booth of factory spaces here, to an energetic businessman, selling A4 souvenirs: small items that can be worked into keychains, money clips or a scatter-pin for that special gal back home, burner cups of brass off the combustion chambers, ball bearings from the servos, and this week the hep item seems to be SA 100 acorn diodes, cute little mixing valves looted out of the Tele-funken units, and the even rarer SA 102s, which of course fetch a higher price.

Hep Keng or whatever his name is, and walked into serious aggravation.

Vaunce took Curf, Swane was picked by Hep, a leatherback from Marneri.

The other poets were either horn-rimmed intellectual hep cats with wild black hair like Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like Ike O'Shay (in a suit), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like Francis DaPavia (who looks like a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like Warren Coughlin.

Nowadays, with AIDS and Hep B and everything, that's a way for a girl to get dropped real fast.

Eleven years of my life, and all I'm left with is Cantonese, hep C and advanced skills in seafood cooking.

Coach Fellers an one of the goons hepped me out special since I didn't know how to play.

I wished my mama coulda been there, cause she'd of hepped me, but she back at home in bed with the grippe.