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(informal) hepatitis. examples
Abbreviation of high-energy physics. examples
plural heps
(obsolete) A hip of a rose; a rosehip.
comparative more hep, superlative most hep
(dated slang) Aware, up-to-date. quotations
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
(dated slang) Cool, hip, sophisticated. quotations
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 , Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 59
third-person singular simple present heps, present participle hepping, simple past and past participle hepped
(dated, US slang) To make aware of.
(historical) A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.
(usually reduplicated) An instance of crying hep!, especially as a call to attack Jewish people. quotations examples
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