Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
noun
- hiphuggers, trousers having this type of waistline.
also hip-huggers, “low-rise pants or skirt,” 1966, from hip + agent noun from hug. So called because they are slung from the hips, not the waist. Earlier as the name of a cut of women’s swimsuit (1963).