The term hip is recorded in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early 1900s. In the 1930s and 1940s, it had become a … See more

• Hip hop music
• Etymology of hippie
• Hipster (1940s subculture)
• Hipster (contemporary subculture) See more

• Crying Wolof: Does the word hip really hail from a West African language? by Jesse Sheidlower at Slate
• "Hip Song (It Does Not Pay to be Hip)", lyrics of See more

The word hip in the sense of "aware, in the know" is first attested in a 1902 cartoon by Tad Dorgan and first appeared in print in a 1904 novel by George Vere Hobart, Jim Hickey, A Story of … See more

• Anatole Broyard, 'A Portrait of the Hipster' Partisan Review June 1948
• Norman Mailer, 'The Hip and the Square' 1. The List. In: … See more