Adjective: hip
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | hipper |
| Superlative | hippest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars. [1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier:]
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Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though [1971, Joni Mitchell, “Blue”, in Blue:]
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“Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom. [1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 65:]
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One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things. [1985 February, David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs”, in Playboy, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2019:]
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Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination. [2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:]
Etymology
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.
Verbs referencing "hip"
German Adjectives
hip, Swedish Adjectives
hipp.