Crossword clues for hep
hep
- Old-school "cool"
- Old-fashioned "cool"
- Like jazz cats
- Cool, old-school
- "With it" in the 40's
- "____, two, three, four"
- Savvy about (with ''to'')
- Not square, to a "cat"
- Not square, once
- Not at all square
- In the know, daddy-o
- Far from squaresville
- Drill sergeant's intro
- Cool, in the 1940s
- Cool, daddy-o
- Cool like a cool cat
- Word in a cadence
- Word before "cat"
- With it, slangily
- With it, old-school
- With it, if you're 78
- With it, at one time
- With it familiarly
- Wise (to), in dated slang
- Part of a cadence count
- Not some fuddy-duddy, maN
- No fuddy-duddy
- Modern, once
- Marching count
- Like the latest, in the past
- Like someone wearing a zoot suit, say
- Like some jazzy cats
- Like some jazz cats
- Like jazzmen
- Like human cats
- Like certain 1940s cats
- Like a zoot suiter
- Like a cat of the '40s
- Knowing what's up
- It was cool in the '40s
- It was "real gone" in bygone days
- Informed, in older slang
- In, back in the day
- In the know, in the '40s
- In style, old-style
- In like an old cat?
- Hardly square
- Hardly old-fashioned, in an old-fashioned way
- Far from square, in old slang
- Disease that affects the liver, for short
- Coolly aware
- Cool, to the older cats
- Cool, to a zoot suiter
- Cool, to a jive talker
- Cool, to a 1940s cat
- Cool, in the 1950s
- Cool, in old parlance
- Cool, in jazz slang
- Cool, in jazz bar slang
- Cool, in an uncool way
- Cool, for cats
- Cool, decades ago
- Cool, as a daddy-o
- Cool, 1940s-style
- Cadence count
- Aware of what's ''in''
- 1950s slang for "cool"
- “Cool,” back in the day
- "With it," in old slang
- "In the old grooveroo"
- "Are You --- to the Jive?"
- Up on the latest
- Hardly squaresville
- Drill sergeant's call
- Cool, old-style
- Drill bit?
- Cool, once
- With it, 40's-style
- Wise, man
- Wise to the jive
- Cool, in the 50's
- Jitterbug's "cool"
- Like some cats
- With it, once
- With it, in the 50's
- Like cats, once
- In the know, in old slang
- With it, man
- Drillmaster's word
- Not squaresville
- Jivey
- Cool, man
- Sound repeated while marching
- With it, 50's-style
- With it, baby
- Plugged in
- Up on things, daddy-o
- Zoot-suited, say
- Cool, to a cat
- Cool, in the '40s
- Viral inflammation, informally
- Like many a 21-Down
- Clued in, once
- Tuned in, daddy-o
- Lead-in for cat
- In the know, old-style
- Like a cool cat of the '40s
- Like '40s boppers
- Up on things, in the '40s
- Cool, '50s-style
- Cool, in old slang
- What was cool in the '50s?
- Cool, in jive talk
- Like a zoot-suiter
- On top of things
- With-it, 1940's style
- Sarge's shout
- Assist, in "Texian"
- Kind of cat?
- Onto, in jive talk
- Onto the jive
- Informed: Slang
- Drill sergeant's word
- Like "cats" in the 40's
- Marchers' word
- Like a cat of the 40's
- On the ball
- Au courant, once
- Cool, formerly
- On to
- Like cool cats
- "Cool," once
- One, in marching
- Cool, to jazzmen
- Up on trends
- Cool, like a cat
- Cool, in the '50s
- Cool, in dated slang
- With it, old-style
- With it, in old slang
- With it, '40s-style
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hip \hip\, a.
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Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
Syn: tuned in.
Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; -- used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties.
hep \hep\ (h[e^]p), n. See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.
hep \hep\ (h[e^]p), a. Same as Hip, a., but older and now less frequently used.
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 of Criminal Slang," 1914] or a saloonkeeper in Chicago who "never quite understood what was going on ... (but) thought he did" ["American Speech," XVI, 154/1]. Taken up by jazz musicians by 1915; hepcat "addict of swing music" is from 1938. With the rise of hip (adj.) by the 1950s, the use of hep ironically became a clue that the speaker was unaware and not up-to-date.
cry of those leading pogroms or attacks on Jews in Europe, 1819 in reference to Jewish explusions by mobs in various German cities in that year (later called the hep-hep riots); perhaps originally the cry of a goatherd, or of a hunter urging on dogs, but popularly said at the time to be acronym of Latin Hierosolyma Est Perdita "Jerusalem is destroyed," which, as H.E.P., supposedly was emblazoned on the banners of medieval recruiters for the Crusades who drew mobs that subsequently turned on local Jewish populations. That such things happened is true enough, but in the absence of evidence the story about the supposed acronym looks like folk etymology.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context informal English) Short form of '''hepatitis'''. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) A hip of a rose; a rosehip. Etymology 3
(context dated US slang English) aware, up-to-date v
(context dated US slang English) To make aware of.
WordNet
Wikipedia
HEP or hep may refer to:
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.