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Hip   /hɪp/   Listen
noun
Hip  n.  
1.
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2.
(Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
3.
(Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; a figure probably derived from wresting.
To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.



Hip  n.  (Written also hop, hep)  (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.



Hipps, Hip  n.  See Hyp, n. (Colloq.)



adjective
hip  adj.  (compar. hipper; superl. hippest)  
1.
Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; same as hep.
Synonyms: tuned in.
2.
Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties.



verb
Hip  v. t.  (past & past part. hipped; pres. part. hipping)  
1.
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.
2.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
3.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.



interjection
Hip  interj.  Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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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