Hip (slang)

Hip is a slang for fashionably current[1] and in the know. To be hip is to have "an attitude, a stance" in opposition to the "unfree world",[2] or to what is square or prude. Being hip is also about being informed about the latest ideas, styles, and developments.[3]

Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered hip is continuously changing.

  1. ^ B. Kirkpatrick ed., Roget's Thesaurus (1998) p. 570
  2. ^ Ford, Phil (November 2008). "Hip Sensibility in an Age of MassCounterculture". Jazz Perspectives. 2 (2): 122. doi:10.1080/17494060802373382. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  3. ^ "the definition of hip". Dictionary.com. Retrieved October 25, 2017.