Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A performer or devotee of swing and jazz, especially during the 1940s.
Wiktionary
- n. informal, music A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
- n. informal A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. slang One who performs jazz music.
- n. slang A person who is hep or hip; same as hipster; -- an older term becoming dated and less used.
Examples
“The OED isn't much help; it traces the word back to the 1940s and offers "hepcat" as its rough equivalent.”
“When asked if he used Persian Cats in the movie's title as an allusion to American hipster vernacular -- "hepcat," "cool cat" -- Ghobadi said he was unaware of the terms.”
“Obaid Karki "hepcat" DiehartPaulite Libertarian Underdog Diogenesist Spinoziste Qutbist”
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“Obaid Karki "hepcat" DiehartPaulite Libertarian Underdog”
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“re-entered the contemporary lexicon in or about 1999 (it had earlier been used interchangeably with "hepcat" in the Beat era), with the arrival of modish young men in trucker hats on”
“The era's hepcat lingo "ork" for orchestra, "ofay" for "white" and hard-boiled, noir ambience give Mr. Lauterbach a tune he can carry.”
“Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010”
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“Newly compiled from three Brooklyn neighbourhoods – Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens – BoCoCa is where you move when you've tired of Williamsburg's twentysomething hepcat shenanigans.”
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“Rowley, in a hepcat bowling shirt, divided home distillers into three groups: economic, technical, and artisan.”
“Wait, slow down there, hepcat, these Hollywood metaphors are way over my head.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hepcat’.
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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Obsolete Words
Words that are either classical or are no longer in common use.
fog eater, hepcat, lacunae, gamine, fain, abaid, abaie, cockatrice, main
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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Names in General.
Both derogatory and conciliatory.
coxcomb, hepcat, macaroni, buck, scuzzbucket, daddy-o, beatnik, ducky, honky, ninnyhammer, bloke, blighter and 44 more...
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Arise, Hippikins and Hippettes
A list of what are generally-accepted to be hippy words. List names derives from this quote by Germaine Greer, "To see hippikins and hippettes milling miserably around among the Mecca gorillas who ...
hippikin, hippette, groovy, split, fuzz, cool, hepcat, dig, threads, gut wadding, peace out, dude and 36 more...
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Skot's Words
huggermugger, dremel, derogate, snood, barony, filch, salacious, verdant, dongle, vertiginous, slender, axiom and 30 more...
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
tremulous, drily, droll, helical, doleful, rookery, racket, graduate, fink, obligato, torpid, organdy and 23 more...
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