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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's an nteresting observation. To many it will seem 30+ years before its
time:

1922 _Logansport [La.] Pharos-Tribune_  (Dec. 19) 22: Once your friends put
you hep but now they put you hip.

JL

JL

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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