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You can make 6 words from hep according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of hep

hep ehp hpe phe eph peh

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Definitions and meaning of hep

hep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛp/
• Rhymes: -ɛp

Etymology 1

Shortening.

Noun

hep (uncountable)

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

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

Alteration of hip.

Noun

hep (plural heps)

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

Etymology 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.

Adjective

hep (comparative more hep, superlative most hep)

1. (dated slang) Aware, up-to-date.
2. (dated slang) Cool, hip, sophisticated.

Derived terms

• hepcat
• hepster
• hip

Verb

hep (third-person singular simple present heps, present participle hepping, simple past and past participle hepped)

1. (dated, US slang) To make aware of.

Etymology 4

Interjection

hep

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

Etymology 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.

Interjection

hep

1. (historical) A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.

References

See also

• hep-lock

Anagrams

• Eph, Eph., HPE, PHE, peh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skapa, related to hap.

Noun

hep f (plural hepa, definite hepi, definite plural hepat)

1. furrow, scratch

Related terms

• hap

References

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton hep, from Old Breton ep, from Proto-Brythonic *heb, from Proto-Celtic *sekʷo-, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”). Cognate to Welsh heb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hep/

Preposition

hep

1. without

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

Perhaps originally used with horses (in the sense "giddyup"), in which case possibly a shortening of hepo; compare also hop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhep/, [ˈhe̞p]
• Rhymes: -ep
• Syllabification^(key): hep

Interjection

hep! (colloquial)

1. go! (in ready, set, go)
2. used as a generic interjection to express desire or surprise or to attract attention to what is said after

Further reading

• “hep”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هپ (hep).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hep/

Adverb

hep

1. altogether
2. always

Usage notes

This adverb can function as a pronoun, taking several possessive forms: hepimiz (“all of us”), hepiniz (“all of you”), and, irregularly, for the third person singular, hepsi (“all of it”). These forms may then also take case endings, just like regular pronouns.

Related terms

• hep beraber
• hep birlikte
• hepten (completely) (it has a wide spread usage- see cites-TDK - informal or dialectal)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هپ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2157