Talk:hip

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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 (Talk) 00:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)Reply