hep

1. informaluncountablehepatitis.
2. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of high-energy physics.

plural heps

1. obsoleteA hip of a rose; a rosehip.

comparative more hep · superlative most hep

1. datedslangAware, up-to-date.

   I was pleased, as I put him hep on the Wilbert-Phyllis situation and revealed the part he was expected to play in it, to note that he showed no signs of being about to issue the presidential veto.

   1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX

2. datedslangCool, hip, sophisticated.

   And I was struck to notice that though the band was only Jumble imitation of our style, it was quite a hep combination, with some feel of the beat, not like those dreadful records of the English bands I'd heard back home which never can play slow, and never can play easy to the limbs.

   1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 59

present singular third person heps · participle present hepping · participle past hepped · past hepped

1. USdatedslangTo make aware of.

   I hepped him to the situation.

1. alternativeAlternative form of hup (“part of marching cadence”).

   Hep, two, three four! Hep, two, three four!

1. historicalA rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.

   Let us hope that the modern “Hep-Hep” cry of Antisemitism of to-day will be accompanied by a similar level of Judaism.

   1893, Emanuel Schreiber, Historians of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century, page 13