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13 years ago
by Stephen G. Brown
What are these "early 20th century" uses of "hip" ?
In the sense of
informed
,
aware
, probably a variation of
hep
(as in
hepcat
) and interchangeable with
hep
until hep fell into disuse. Hip was used by American blacks since 1904.
—Stephen
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