adjective
hep
hehp
adjective
1
Fashionably aware and up-to-date; an older, jazz-era word for "hip".
"He liked to think of himself as a hep cat who knew all the latest music."
How to Use Hep
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old-fashioned slang word meaning cool or in-the-know — the ancestor of today's "hip".
When to use it
Dated slang, mostly associated with 1940s-50s jazz culture; rarely used seriously today.
Easily confused with
Word Forms
more hep comparative, hepped past tense, heps plural, heps singular, most hep superlative
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Etymology
An alteration of the word "hip" in its slang sense.