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hep

noun
/hɛp/

Etymology

US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up.

  1. borrowed from hep

Definitions

  1. hepatitis.

  2. Abbreviation of high-energy physics.

  3. A hip of a rose

    A hip of a rose; a rosehip.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Aware, up-to-date.

      • I was pleased, as I put him hep on the Wilbert-Phyllis situation and revealed the part he was expected to play in it, to note that he showed no signs of being about to issue the presidential veto.

    2. Cool, hip, sophisticated.

    3. To make aware of.

      • I hepped him to the situation.

    4. Alternative form of hup (“part of marching cadence”).

      • Hep, two, three four! Hep, two, three four!

    5. A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.

      • Let us hope that the modern “Hep-Hep” cry of Antisemitism of to-day will be accompanied by a similar level of Judaism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hep. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA