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Hip   /hɪp/   Listen
Hip

noun
1.
Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh.
2.
The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates.  Synonyms: pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis.
3.
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.  Synonyms: articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint.
4.
(architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof.
5.
The fruit of a rose plant.  Synonyms: rose hip, rosehip.
adjective
(compar. hipper; superl. hippest)
1.
Informed about the latest trends.  Synonyms: hep, hip to.



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"Hip" Quotes from Famous Books



... are we when we join the Wigwam and once a year thereafter—our height, calf of leg, hip, chest, and arm. This by Medicine Man who keepeth the writings and adviseth how to improve. He praiseth what good we do, and alloweth not "what harmeth body, defileth tongue, ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben

... his sheet being lifted up, and then someone feeling his stomach. A sharp pain near his hip made him start. He was being very gently washed with cold water. Therefore, someone must have discovered the misdeed and he was being cared for. A wild joy seized him; but prudently, he did not wish to show that he was conscious. He opened one ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... not attended country school for nothing. Stepping lightly aside, he caught his ready opponent as he passed, and, with one arm about his neck, gave him a specimen of the "hip-lock" which sent him in the air over his own shoulder. The cowboy came down much in a heap, but presently sat up, his hair somewhat rumpled and sandy. He rubbed his head and made sundry exclamations of surprise. "Huh!" said ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough

... to use our resources to advance their ambitions. As the man who carries a revolver is more likely than an unarmed man to be drawn into a fight, so the European nations would be more apt to engage in selfish quarrels if they carried the fighting power of the United States in their hip pocket. For their own good, as well as for our protection and for the saving of civilization, it is well to require a clear and complete statement of the reasons for the war and of the ends that the belligerents have in view, before we mingle our ...
— In His Image • William Jennings Bryan

... long snake crawling back to him across Nicky-Nan's potato-tops and over Nicky-Nan's fence. Then, shutting the spool with a click, he turned away and followed his officer. The stout corporal, left alone, seated himself on a soft cushion of thyme, drew forth a pipe from his hip-pocket, and was in the act of lighting it when ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


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