单词 | hepped |
释义 | heppedadj. slang (originally U.S.). 1. Aware, in the know. Often in to be hepped to: to be aware of, to be wise to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective] > in state of euphoria hepped1903 hopped1924 up1942 spaced1967 spacy1969 1903 Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/2 Hept—To get wise or next. 1909 F. H. Tillotson How to be Detective 86 Being ‘hept’ to anything is knowing about it before or at the time it is transpiring. One thief may say to his pal, ‘Are you hept?’ or ‘Are you joseph?’ or ‘Are you jo hept?’ His pal will say, ‘I'm wise’. The expression was given its name from the characteristic of an old circus man who was famous in his time many years ago. He would always..say that he knew just what to do. 1912 Day Bk. (Chicago) 19 July But by the time you are hepped you have been made to feel like a traned [sic] flea that has done the wrong trick. 1916 Day Bk. (Chicago) 27 Apr. Now we are hepped to a yarn that Fred Welsh is supposed to have told a Turkish bathhouse roommate. 1942 Life 8 June 2/3 I sincerely trust that space will permit you to correct these small injustices, so that your huge public, in becoming ‘hepped to the jive’, may be ‘hepped’ to, at least, the correct ‘jive’. 2. a. Excited, enthused (about something); energized, stirred up; (in negative sense) agitated, crazed. Chiefly (and in earliest use) in hepped up.Also as the second element in compounds: stirred up, crazed by the thing specified. ΚΠ 1924 ‘W. Fabian’ Sailors' Wives xxi. 287 She was all hepped up for a moonlight whirl in his roadster. 1940 M. Levin Citizens 141 The union boys got all hepped up. 1944 Jazz Session Nov. 19 He gets all hepped up when ‘some silly guy tugs at my coat and asks me to play Pistol Packin' Mama’. 1959 Guardian 16 Oct. 10/6 Columns of drug-hepped, ragged men. 1984 L. Rooke Bolt White Cloth 54 Richard was excitable and sometimes he got so hepped up he looked dangerous. 1999 Chicago Tribune 4 Feb. iv. 8/6 Why am I so hepped about a casting contest? 2013 Canwest News Service (Nexis) 6 Jan. Everybody's hepped up about panini these days. b. to be hepped on: to be enthusiastic or fanatical about; to be very keen on. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > be zealous for [verb (transitive)] to run after ——c1422 zeal1542 to throw one's heart (also soul, energy, etc.) into1807 to go mad (about, for, over, etc.)1850 to be shook on1888 to be hepped on1926 1926 Boys' Life Sept. 5/1 S'pose you've noticed how folks in this town are all ‘hepped’ on him yet? That's because there wasn't any finer bird ever drew breath than Dahl Strickler. 1956 D. Karp All Honorable Men 107 You know how hepped on the matter of wasting time the whole Board is. 1988 D. Roberts Jean Stafford x. 201 He'd write that book, and then he'd write it over... He was just hepped on that one subject. 1993 S. Goldsmith City Year ix. 78 He joined to study for the G.E.D. and because his friend Joe was so hepped on it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1903 |
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