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▪ I. hep, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|hɛp|
[Of unknown origin.]
Well-informed, knowledgeable, ‘wise to’, up-to-date; smart, stylish. Hence as n., the state of being ‘hep’. Also as v., to pep up; hepped ppl. a. (often with up); to be hepped on, to be enthusiastic about, ‘bitten with’. Cf. hep-cat, hip a.
1908Sat. Even. Post 5 Dec. 17/1 What puzzles me is how you can find anybody left in the world who isn't hep. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 43 Hep,... Sapiency; understanding... Derived from the name of a fabulous detective who operated in Cincinnati. 1918Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim xi. 118 ‘You see in me a confidant. I am hep.’ ‘You know—’ ‘Everything.’ 1923― Adv. Sally xiii. 148 He was aware that women were seldom hep to the really important things in life. 1927P. Marks Lord of Himself 47 You're pleased because the top-notchers wanted me, but that doesn't make you think I'm a top-notcher. I'm just getting hep. There you have it. 1938‘J. Spenser’ Crime against Society xxiv. 235 The coppers are hep and we've got to stage a cover-up. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 154/1 'Tis said that back in the 1890's Joe Hep ran a saloon in Chicago... Although he never quite understood what was going on, he thought he did... Hence his name entered the argot as an ironic appellation for anyone who thought he knew but didn't. The ironic sense has now largely disappeared..in..to get hep to. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 68/2 His failure to be hep to success doctrines. 1956D. Karp All Honorable Men 107 You know how hepped on the matter of wasting time the whole Board is. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. iii. 19 Where can I get a shirt like that?..It's hep. Jumble style, but hep. 1958N. D. Hinton in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 40 In the swing period ‘hep’ was widely used by musicians to mean ‘in the know’, ‘possessed of good taste’, or to indicate simple understanding... The boppers quickly changed the word to ‘hip’. Use of ‘hep’ was then regarded as a sign that the speaker was not the right sort. 1958Punch 27 Aug. 270/1 And when I stood up and he began to get hep I noticed that his shoes were cunningly low cut. 1959‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade xviii. 246 Are you, in the distressing jargon of the age, ‘hep’? 1959Guardian 16 Oct. 10/6 Columns of drug-hepped, ragged men. 1959News Chron. 14 July 4/4 A slightly hepped-up version of the old deck chair and concert party formula. Ibid. 21 July 1/6 The pills were being taken..to give the addicts a form of ‘hep’. 1959T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) 238 A California chemist who is hep to every current allusion and is an asset to any party. 1960News Chron. 6 July 3/1 Even some of the classics..have been hepped up to circus style. 1960Guardian 12 Aug. 8/3 Not even its bitterest critics could accuse the Labour party of being ‘hep’. 1962Listener 6 Sept. 350/2 ‘I wasn't hepped on becoming a painter,’ he [sc. Henry Miller] said. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 1/8 Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying? 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 119 It is, of course, a commonplace of the jazz language that hep is a white man's distortion of the more characteristically Negro hip.
▪ II. hep, int.|hɛp|
[Said to be f. the initials of Hierosolyma Est Perdita; or, the cry of a goatherd.]
Usu. hep, hep! The cry of those who persecuted Jews in the 19th century. Also attrib.
1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 122/1 They [sc. the Jews] were massacred at the cry of ‘Hep’, ‘Hep’, the initials of the words ‘Hierosolyma est perdita’. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xviii. 313 (heading) The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep! 1930D. Philipson Reform Movement in Judaism (rev. ed.) i. 25 The hep hep cry resounded in the streets of..Frankfort and Würzburg. Ibid. vi. 108 A violent anti-Jewish literary campaign ensued..which culminated in the..disgraceful hep-hep outbreaks of the year 1819. 1971Encycl. Judaica VII. 1227/1 Hamburg Jews were molested during the Hep! Hep! riots of 1819.
▪ III. hep
variant form of hip n.2, the fruit of the rose-tree.
▪ IV. hep
obs. form of heap, hip n.1 |