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- noun Plural form of
hepcat .
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Examples
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It crops up in several novels by P.G. Wodehouse, while "hepcats" gets a turn in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon.
Save The Hipster! 2010
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Soon after, Katharine Hepburn popularizes trousers on screen. 1942: Baggy zoot suits, hip among teenage "hepcats," ignite parental protests, even race riots.
Informal Immortals 2008
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During the rise of Italian Americans into American respectability, Louis Prima and the hepcats of his generation were replaced by men who did not dance.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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La Santa Cecilia: This group of hepcats were my resident house band back when I had a radio show, and they've gone on to bigger and better things since.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Christmas Gift Edition Gustavo Arellano 2011
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It crops up in several novels by P.G. Wodehouse, while "hepcats" gets a turn in F.
Save The Hipster! 2010
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I imagine the debate centered around the growing Greaser Menace, and how we must protect The Children from hepcats who wear black leather jackets and call everyone “daddy-o.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives: 2009
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I imagine the debate centered around the growing Greaser Menace, and how we must protect The Children from hepcats who wear black leather jackets and call everyone “daddy-o.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives: 2009
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I imagine the debate centered around the growing Greaser Menace, and how we must protect The Children from hepcats who wear black leather jackets and call everyone “daddy-o.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives: 2009
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Watch Sahl regaling Hugh Hefner and his fellow hepcats with Nixon jokes at a cocktail party stocked with nubile Bunnies sipping highballs.
Primary Comics 2008
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And its clubs and mansions drew hepcats like Norman Mailer and Sammy Davis Jr.
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