Definition of "hepcats" [hepcats]

• Plural form of hepcat. (noun)

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• "It crops up in several novels by P.G. Wodehouse, while "hepcats" gets a turn in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon."
• "Soon after, Katharine Hepburn popularizes trousers on screen. 1942: Baggy zoot suits, hip among teenage "hepcats," ignite parental protests, even race riots."
• "During the rise of Italian Americans into American respectability, Louis Prima and the hepcats of his generation were replaced by men who did not dance."