Hip
Hip adjective - Keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment.
Usage example: hip fashionistas wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit
Now and hip are semantically related. in fashionable topic. In some cases you can use "Now" instead the word "Hip" as an adjective or a noun.
Now
Now adjective - Keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment.
Usage example: questioned the moral values of the now generation
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Jay-Znote Also see Linkin Park, Kanye West - Known in the '90s as a rising force of hip hop, is now one of the genre's frontrunners.
Source: Hip Hop Rap - With the rise of popularity of hardcore hip-hop and the far more aggressive gangsta rap, rap is now used as a motif for anything related to the darker aspects of street life.
Source: Genre Motif / Hip-Hop - To that end it gets more complicated if you believe the mainstream media and white America is the one that's driving hip-hop now instead of the inner city culture, blacks and Latinos.
Source: Broken Base / Music
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Now and Hip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hip/now
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Now or Hip. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hip/now.
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