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Definition of hip adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hip

adjective
 
/hɪp/
 
/hɪp/
(comparative hipper, superlative hippest)
(informal)
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  1. following or knowing what is fashionable in clothes, music, etc.
    • He's just trying to be hip!
    • the hippest club in town
    • It was a really hip place to go.
    • It’s hard to be hip and forty.
    opposite unhipTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Word Originadjective early 20th cent. (originally US): of unknown origin.
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