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单词 hepcat
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Definition of hepcat in English:

hepcat

noun ˈhɛpkatˈhepkat
dated, informal
  • A stylish or fashionable person, especially in the sphere of jazz or popular music.

    it's rock's most waggish hepcat, on the third of his nine showbiz lives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns.
    • The Post reports that the sassy TV hostess was starry-eyed over the gangly hepcat movie star and proclaimed she was his ‘biggest fan!’
    • Before they knew it, they were playing big concert halls in New York and L.A., seducing music lovers of all tastes: the house-heads, the hippies, the ravers, the hepcats - you name it.
    • The ‘Thin Man’ series updates the story to the Fifties and recasts Nick and Nora as wealthy hepcats.
    • In general, though, the Oxford hepcats detect a turning away from the hyphen.

Origin

1930s: from hep1 + cat1.

 
 

Definition of hepcat in US English:

hepcat

nounˈhepkat
dated, informal
  • A stylish or fashionable person, especially in the sphere of jazz or popular music.

    it's rock's most waggish hepcat, on the third of his nine showbiz lives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In general, though, the Oxford hepcats detect a turning away from the hyphen.
    • The ‘Thin Man’ series updates the story to the Fifties and recasts Nick and Nora as wealthy hepcats.
    • The Post reports that the sassy TV hostess was starry-eyed over the gangly hepcat movie star and proclaimed she was his ‘biggest fan!’
    • Before they knew it, they were playing big concert halls in New York and L.A., seducing music lovers of all tastes: the house-heads, the hippies, the ravers, the hepcats - you name it.
    • His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns.

Origin

1930s: from hep + cat.

 
 
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