hip
nounEtymology
From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.
Definitions
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals
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A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
- Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.
To use one's hips to bump into someone.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in…
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
The fruit of a rose.
- 1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.
- The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you.
Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
- I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.
- Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though
- “Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.
To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
- She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
- She went ape over Chris. She'd go downtown and come home with shopping bags loaded with fine dresses and underclothes for herself and her sisters. Later she hipped Chris to boosting
An exclamation to invoke a united cheer
An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
Acronym of Home Information Pack.
Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.
Acronym of historically informed performance.
Initialism of hot isostatic pressing
A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
connected at the hip, dancer's hip, the hip, hip and shoulder, hipball, hip bath, hip bone, hipbone, hip boot, hip check, hip dip, hip dysplasia, hip-flask, hip flask, hip fracture, hip-grinding, hiphugger, hip-huggers, hiphuggers, hip joint, hip joint arthrosis, hip joint disease, hipless, hiplike, hipline, hip lock, hip pack, hipper, hip pocket, hip-pocket client, hip-pocket flask, hip replacement, hip roof, hip-shooter, hip-shooting, hip-shot, hipshot, hip speed, hip thrust, hip thrust pad · +11 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA