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Hip to   /hɪp tu/   Listen
Hip to

adjective
1.
Informed about the latest trends.  Synonyms: hep, hip.






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"Hip to" Quotes from Famous Books



... "built," of a light-grey mixture, a broad stripe of the most vivid scarlet traversing each seam in a perpendicular direction from hip to ankle—in short, the regimental costume of the Royal Bombay Fencibles. The animal, educated in the country, had never seen such a pair of breeches in her life—Omne ignotum pro magnifico! The scarlet streak, inflamed as it was by the reflection of the fire, seemed to act on Flora's nerves as the ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough

... the whipping bench, his body bare to the waist. A row of stripes which ran diagonally across his bare back from hip to shoulder showed where each blow of the rattan had cut through skin and flesh so that the blood flowed back ...
— Anting-Anting Stories - And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos • Sargent Kayme

... water in a billy; and how he manages without a bag is known only to himself. He has read every scrap of print within reach, and now lies on his side, with his face to the wall and one arm thrown up over his head; the jumper is twisted back, and leaves his skin bare from hip to arm-pit. His lower face is brutal, his eyes small and shifty, and ugly straight lines run across his low forehead. He says very little, but scowls most of the time—poor devil. He might be, or at least seem, a totally different man under more favourable conditions. He is probably ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson



Words linked to "Hip to" :   hip, colloquialism, informed



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