| 单词 | to be hepped to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be hepped to 1. Aware, in the know. Often in to be hepped to: to be aware of, to be wise to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective] > in state of euphoria hepped1903 hopped1924 up1942 spaced1967 spacy1969 1903 Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/2 Hept—To get wise or next. 1909 F. H. Tillotson How to be Detective 86 Being ‘hept’ to anything is knowing about it before or at the time it is transpiring. One thief may say to his pal, ‘Are you hept?’ or ‘Are you joseph?’ or ‘Are you jo hept?’ His pal will say, ‘I'm wise’. The expression was given its name from the characteristic of an old circus man who was famous in his time many years ago. He would always..say that he knew just what to do. 1912 Day Bk. (Chicago) 19 July But by the time you are hepped you have been made to feel like a traned [sic] flea that has done the wrong trick. 1916 Day Bk. (Chicago) 27 Apr. Now we are hepped to a yarn that Fred Welsh is supposed to have told a Turkish bathhouse roommate. 1942 Life 8 June 2/3 I sincerely trust that space will permit you to correct these small injustices, so that your huge public, in becoming ‘hepped to the jive’, may be ‘hepped’ to, at least, the correct ‘jive’. < as lemmas |
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