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hip
adjective- knowing, understanding US, 1902
- [O]r else they were slinking criminals like Elmot Hassel, with that hip sneer[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 10, 1957
- They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all about Pound without being pretentious or talking too much about it, they are very quiet, they are very Christlike. — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 1, 1958
- And these children threw around swear words I’d never heard before, even, and slang expressisons that were just as new to me, such as stud and cat and chick and cool and hip. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 43, 1964
- The Diggers are hip to property. — The Digger Papers, p. 3, August 1968
- But the PLP’s squeals grow weaker and weaker as the people are now hip to their slimy snakelike TACTICS. — The Black Panther, p. 9, 2 August 1969
- Parents are generally pretty hip to the fever scams. — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
- ALABAMA: That’s a long time. CLARENCE: I’m hip. — True Romance, 1993
- in style, fashionable, admired US, 1944
- It was a world of dingy backstairs “pads,” Times Square cafeterias, bebop joints, night-long wanderings, meetings on street corners, hitchhiking, a myriad of “hip” bars all over the city, and the streets themselves. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 37, 1952
- One is Hip or one is Square (the alternative which each new generation coming into American life is beginning to feel), one is a rebel or one conforms[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 339, 1957
- Why do you come here? Because it’s hip to come on as if jazz meant something to you? — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 97, 1965
- I didn’t know Johnny D. before I went to Wiltwyck, but he was about the hippest cat on Eighth Avenue, the slickest nigger in the neighborhood. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 108, 1965
- Well, everybody’s saying/ that hell’s the hippest way to go/ Well I don’t think so[.] — Joni Mitchell, Blue, 1971
- “I’m not hip,” he [Meatloaf] gloats, “and I’m glad. Because I hate hip. Hip doesn’t last. I was never hip. It’s not my style.” — Ask, p. 53, 19 December 1981
- Now do you think she would prefer laidback Jim, or cool, hip Jim? — American Pie, 1999
▶ hip to all happenings
profoundly aware of the latest trends and happenings US- I met chicks who were fine as May wine, and cats who were hip to all happenings. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 56, 1964
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