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hep cat; hepped cat; hip cat noun a fan of jazz or swing music; a stylish and fashionable man US, 1938- All the hip cats on the corner / They don’t look so sharp no mo’ — Jimmy Witherspoon, Skid Row Blues, 1947
- — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, 1953
- There was probably not a single hep-cat in the auditorium, but that bass droom was strictly for hep-cats. — Mark Tryon, Of G-Strings and Strippers, p. 102, 1953
- The customers were the hepped-cats who lived by their wits–smooth Harlem hustlers with shiny straightened hair, dressed in lurid elegance, along with their tightly draped queens, chorus girls and models[.] — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 88, 1957
- We come in and I see this weird hepcat wearing a black robe with hood, barefoot, sitting crossleg on corner bench[.] — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 22, 25 March 1957: Letter to Neal Cassady
- Swaggering, hepcat, ala Hollywood leading man type. — Robert Gover, The Maniac Responsible, p. 82, 1963
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