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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hepped adj.

(US) enthusiastic about, keen on; also constr. with on.

1930		J. Lait Put on the Spot 36: He’ll be hepped soon enough.
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 120: Gladys wasn’t that hepped on chop suey.
1975		Sepe & Telano Cop Team 70: Oh, shit [...] You guys are hepped.

In phrases

hepped up (adj.)

1. (US) agitated, excited.

1940		M. Levin Citizens 141: The union boys got all hepped up.
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 71: The whole race was hepped-up about appliances.
1956		Thomas Anderson Your Own Beloved Sons 57: Major’s all hepped up about it.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 136: Hepped up Eager for or looking forward to something or someone.
1986		F. Walton Once Were Eagles 159: I was real hepped up to get assigned to the Black Sheep.

2. (US) intoxicated by drugs or alcohol.

1942		ATS 123: [Drunk] Hepped up...pifflicated [etc.].
1994		Simpsons [Fox-TV] The guy’s hepped up on goofballs! [HDAS].

3. see hep adj. (1)