hepicat


one who has his eyes open. possibly the etymological root of ‘hip’
many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat (e.g., jazz musicians’ now cliched “hip cat”) derive from the west african wolof language word hepicat, which means “one who has his eyes open”

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