What is hip?

[Karen Hanson]

For theories on the origins of "hip" and "hep", see

The Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhip.html
and http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_241b.html

Karen


"Ms. Juke"


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:09:50 -0500, Steve Freund
<stevefreund@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> I have always thought "hip" derived from "hep", slang of the jazz age.  Heroin was all the rage back
> then, and so was hepatitis. So saying "I'm hep" means to get high, to be cool, to be "hip".
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