hep

where hip came from, originated around the 50's and 60's
SKA kids use it

"reel big fish is totally hep!"

by kayla. July 5, 2005

hep

A word used in southern california mid 60's early 70's a word/expression meaning of: In full and total agreement of:,to go along with,To:Agree,Concur.

dude#1:Oh man! that car looks like a piece of S#!T! dude#2:I'm hep!(2) dude#1:hey man,I'm thinking about going down to mickey dee's for a quarter pounder you hep?dude#2:I'm hep to it(3)dude#1:Wow!that looks so cool the way everything is arranged dude#2:I'm hep to that!.

by mikel t August 26, 2006

hep

old timey black-american slang meaning hip, cool. used alot by cab calloway as in "are you hep to the jive?". i have that CD, by the way.

by dagger_grrl November 2, 2003

hep

someone who knows the score. someone who understands 'jive talk'. someone who is 'with it'. the expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't 'dig' what it means, no one can ever tell you.

he was hep to the New York junk scene, so he could score for it easily.

by pleased to meet you April 10, 2006

hep

The word that birthed the term "hip". Largely used by black Rude Boys and hipsters in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the late 50's and early 60's, and is sometimes associated with ska.

Reel Big Fish is not hep, my friend.
Desmond Dekker is hep.

by ModSoulBrother September 4, 2006

hep

this word once meant what "hip" came to mean, and what "phat" or "tha bomb" means today

That cat playing on the bongos is hep, man!

by David October 31, 2003

hep

Black word for "help".

Asking for a loan: "I come to see iffin you could hep me wit a piece of money."

At a funeral after shouting at the corpse, fake fainting and lots of fanning, singing, dancing and generally enjoying oneself: "Hep me, Jesus! Hep me!"

by Agnes Henderson March 22, 2007