hep

• Rhymes: -ɛp

Shortening.

hep (uncountable)

1. (informal) hepatitis.
2. Abbreviation of high-energy physics.

• Mainly used in the names of varieties of hepatitis, such as hep A, hep B, hep C, hep D, and hep E.

Alteration of hip.

hep (plural heps)

1. (obsolete) A hip of a rose; a rosehip.

US underworld slang of unknown origin, first recorded 1908.

hep (comparative more hep, superlative most hep)

1. (dated, US slang) aware, up-to-date
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:

     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.

2. (dated, US slang) cool, hip

• hepcat
• hip

hep (third-person singular simple present heps, present participle hepping, simple past and past participle hepped)

1. (dated, US slang) To make aware of.

   I hepped him to the situation.

hep

1. (historical) A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.

• Eph, Eph., HPE, peh

From Proto-Albanian *skapa, related to hap[1].

hep f (indefinite plural hepa, definite singular hepi, definite plural hepat)

1. furrow, scratch

• hap

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷo, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”). Cognate to Welsh heb

• IPA^(key): /hep/

hep

1. without

• IPA^(key): /ˈhep/, [ˈhe̞p]

hep!

1. (colloquial) go! (in ready, set, go)
2. (colloquial) used as a generic interjection to express desire or surprise or to attract attention to what is said after

hep

1. altogether
2. always

This adverb can function as a pronoun, taking several possessive forms: hepimiz (“all of us”), hepiniz (“all of you”), and, irregularly, for the third person singular, hepsi (“all of it”). These forms may then also take case endings, just like regular pronouns.

• hep beraber
• hep birlikte