hip cat

A form of hepcat — A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.

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Meanings

nounhip cat (plural hip cats)

plural hip cats

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hepcat

    “Every hip cat had a union jack bed spread, a union jack on the wall, bands draped them over their amplifiers and made jackets out of them – part of the reason for that was there were so many flags after the war,” said Groom.

    2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, quoting Nick Groom, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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APA

hip cat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hip%20cat

MLA

“hip cat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hip%20cat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hip cat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hip%20cat.

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