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hepcat

hepcat \hep"cat`\ (h[e^]p"k[a^]t`), n.

  1. One who performs jazz music. [slang]

  2. A person who is hep or hip; same as hipster; -- an older term becoming dated and less used. [slang]

Wiktionary
hepcat

n. 1 (context informal music English) A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s. 2 (context informal English) A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster.

Wikipedia
Hepcat (band)

Hepcat is a ska and reggae band formed in southern California in 1989. Their soulful harmonies and mellow rhythms were unlike those of contemporaries and more akin to musicians from the heyday of 1960s Jamaican ska, also referred to as the first wave.

Hepcat

Hepcat is a term for jazz and beatnik subculture. See Hipster (1940s subculture)

Hepcat(s) may also refer to:

  • Hepcat (band), a ska band
  • Hepcats, a comic book series

Usage examples of "hepcat".

Annapolis and he thought of himself as someone with a secret identity: hepcat white boy who dug those rhythm and blues.

I glanced across at his little hepcat, and he laughed and flipped his hand, and went to help her into the Mini-Cooper.

Knoxville before being toppled by the usual blow scandal, fed her the questions and gave orders to their cameraman, the aging, overweight hepcat Barney Lumpen, forty-three, who could do all that stuff in his sleep and never listened to the interviews.

I saw the shitbirds chasing hepcat, who looked suspiciously like the subject of felony warrant number four eleven dash forty-three.

Later, there will be police reports of stabbing, newspaper reports of brazen hepcats jabbing heroin needles into their arms.

Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.

The young hepcats high on music or weed, the middle-aged men on the town, the tourists waiting for something to fulfill their fantasies, the hopeful floozies and the despairing ones, the quick, light, ageless grifters walked the long Hollywood beat on the other side of the plate glass.

Sure, he knew Doctor Mubuta was a con man, all the hepcats in Harlem had him made.

Hurwitz, hepcats: he does his own commercials on TV's Spade Cooley Show.

The other was a PRC hunk of junk,jive junction, starring Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.

Hepcat, when you club hop on the sin-tillating Sunset Strip, bring a bulletproof vest in case Meyer Harris Cohen sits nearby.