| 单词 | to be hep to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be hep to 1. Well-informed, aware; in the know, shrewd. to be hep to: to be wise to, to be aware of. to put a person hep to: to make someone wise to (something), to put in the know.Common in the mid 20th cent., esp. in the contexts of jazz, swing, etc., but now largely superseded by hip: cf. hip adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective] world-wiseOE worldly-wisec1400 smart1571 shrewd1589 hard1655 sharp1697 auld-farrant1702 up to snuff1810 canny1816 savvy1826 worldly1829 lairy1846 facultized1872 sophisticated1895 hep1899 hip1904 streetwise1949 ready1967 kewl1990 1899 Times (Washington, D.C.) 12 Feb. ii. 13/2 Cold? On the dead, it was colder in that kitchen than any of them Klondike suckers ever heard about. An' as soon as I get out I'm hep that the water's froze. 1908 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 5 Dec. 17/1 What puzzles me is how you can find anybody left in the world who isn't hep. 1913 N.Y. Clipper 15 Feb. 10/1 ‘Are you hepp?’..So it came to be a sort of standing joke, whenever a fresh bit of news was revealed, that the narrator had to be ‘Joe Hepp’ about all that was transpiring. 1918 P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim xi. 118 ‘You see in me a confidant. I am hep.’ ‘You know—’ ‘Everything.’ 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt 172 Something doing boys. Listen to what the Hep Bird twitters. 1938 ‘J. Spenser’ Crime against Society xxiv. 235 The coppers are hep and we've got to stage a cover-up. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 68/2 His failure to be hep to success doctrines. 1957 E. Lester Take my Advice iii. 98 Say, put me hep to the system, will you, so's I won't get stalled that way again? 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 1/8 Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying? 1994 Spy (N.Y.) July 86/2 Online veterans like to use abbreviations like..RTFM (reading the fucking manual) to show that they're ‘hep’ to the lingo. < as lemmas |
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