he'pとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

he'p (third-person singular simple present he'ps, present participle he'ping, simple past and past participle he'ped)

1. Pronunciation spelling of help. [19th c.]

語源 1

Shortening.

名詞

hep (uncountable)

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

使用する際の注意点

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

語源 2

Alteration of hip.

名詞

hep (plural heps)

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

語源 3

US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up.

形容詞

hep (comparative more hep, superlative most hep)

1. (dated 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 slang) Cool, hip, sophisticated.
   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 59:

     And I was struck to notice that though the band was only Jumble imitation of our style, it was quite a hep combination, with some feel of the beat, not like those dreadful records of the English bands I'd heard back home which never can play slow, and never can play easy to the limbs.

派生語

• hepcat
• hepness
• hepster
• hip

動詞

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.

語源 4

間投詞

hep

1. Alternative form of hup (“part of marching cadence”).

   Hep, two, three four! Hep, two, three four!

語源 5

From German hep or Hepp-Hepp, an interjection used to attack Jewish people. The origin of the German source is unknown, but may come from a goatherd’s call.

間投詞

hep

1. (historical) A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.
   • 1893, Emanuel Schreiber, Historians of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century‎, page 13:

     Let us hope that the modern “Hep-Hep” cry of Antisemitism of to-day will be accompanied by a similar level of Judaism.

参照

参考

• hep-lock

アナグラム

• Eph, Eph., HPE, PHE, peh, EHP