hepster slang (orig. U.S.).
(ˈhɛpstə(r))
Now rare.
[f. hep a. + -ster.]
= hep-cat. Cf. hipster1.
| 1938 in Amer. Speech (1939) XIV. 140/2 Cab Calloway's Cat-alogue, a ‘hepster's’ dictionary. 1948 [see bop n.2]. 1958 Spectator 21 Nov. 702/1 Yet although jazz seems to have burst out of the locked treasure casket over which an egghead minority of hepsters crooned for so many years, it still remains a curiously unreal cult. |