adjective
- having hips.
- having the hips as specified (usually used in combination): broad-hipped; narrow-hipped.
- (especially of livestock) having the hip injured or dislocated.
- Architecture. formed with a hip or hips, as a roof.
adjective Informal.
- greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He’s hipped on learning to play the tuba.
noun
- the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- hip joint.
- Architecture. the inclined projecting angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end, or of two adjacent sloping sides, of a roof.
- Furniture. knee(def 6).
adjective
- (especially of a garment) extending to the hips; hiplength: hip boots.
verb (used with object), hipped, hip·ping.
- (especially ofō livestock) to injure or dislocate the hip of.
- Architecture. to form (a roof) with a hip or hips.
- shoot from the hip, Informal. to speak or act bluntly or rashly, without deliberation or prudence: Diplomats are trained to conduct themselves with discretion, and not to shoot from the hip.
- smite hip and thigh, to attack unmercifully; overcome. Judg. 15:8.
adjective, hip·per, hip·pest.
- familiar with or informed about the latest ideas, styles, developments, etc.: My parents aren’t exactly hip, you know.
- considered aware of or attuned to what is expected, especially with a casual or knowing air; cool: The guy was not at all hip—a total nerd.
- in agreement or willing to cooperate; going along: We explained our whole plan, and she was hip.
noun
verb (used with object), hipped, hip·ping.
- to make or keep aware or informed.
adjective
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- having a hip or hips
- (in combination)broad-hipped; low-hipped
- (esp of cows, sheep, reindeer, elk, etc) having an injury to the hip, such as a dislocation of the bones
- architect having a hip or hipsSee also hipped roof
adjective
- (often postpositive foll by on) US and Canadian old-fashioned, slang very enthusiastic (about)
n acronym for
- (in England and Wales) home information pack: a set of documents that a seller must possess before his or her property can be put on the market
noun
- (often plural) either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh, overlying the lateral part of the pelvis and its articulation with the thighbones
- another name for pelvis (def. 1)
- short for hip joint
- the angle formed where two sloping sides of a roof meet or where a sloping side meets a sloping end
noun
- the berry-like brightly coloured fruit of a rose plant: a swollen receptacle, rich in vitamin C, containing several small hairy achenesAlso called: rosehip
interjection
- an exclamation used to introduce cheers (in the phrase hip, hip, hurrah)
adjective hipper, hippest, hepper or heppest slang
- aware of or following the latest trends in music, ideas, fashion, etc
- (often postpositive foll by to) informed (about)
“having hips,” c.1500, past participle adjective; see hip (n.1)). In architecture from 1823.
“part of the body where pelvis and thigh join,” Old English hype “hip,” from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (cf. Dutch heup, German Hüfte, Gothic hups “hip”), from PIE *qeub- “to bend.” Hip of a roof is from late 17c.
“seed pod” (especially of wild rose), Old English heope, hiope “seed vessel of the wild rose,” from Proto-Germanic *hiup- (cf. dialectal Norwegian hjupa, Old Saxon hiopo, Dutch joop, Old High German hiafo, dialectal German Hiefe, Old English hiopa “briar, bramble”).
“informed,” 1904, apparently originally in black slang, probably a variant of hep (1), with which it is identical in sense, though it is recorded four years earlier.
exclamation used to introduce a united cheer (cf. hip-hip-hurrah), 1827, earlier hep, cf. German hepp, to animals a cry to attack game, to mobs a cry to attack Jews (see hep (2)); perhaps a natural sound (cf. Latin eho, heus).
n.
- The lateral prominence of the pelvis from the waist to the thigh.
- The hip joint.
see shoot from the hip.