[Ads-l] Other Early Citations for "Hip"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I don't think I can further push back the great earliest citation (1902) of the adjective "hip" found by Stephen Goranson.  Here are two other early citations I have found, which now become the second and third oldest known occurrences:

1903 Pittsburg Post 8 Feb. 11 (ProQuest)  You lads get on where you got off and don't loaf around Pittsburg.  Better get on the cars now.  We're hip to you, so don't take any chances here.

1903 Denver Post 14 Mar. 8/1 (Genealogy Bank)  I been wise t' dem guys fer many moons an ef youse can show me one dat won't swear black is white when it comes t' settling a poor sucker I'll put you hip t' a white blackbird.

Fred Shapiro



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