Hip

• POS: Interjection, Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Hip, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. hÜfte, Dan. hofte, Sw. höft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.].

•  The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.  Waddell.  [1913 Webster]

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. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.

Hip, v. t. 

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).  [1913 Webster]
•  To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.  [1913 Webster]

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

Hip, n. [OE. hepe, AS. heópe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.].

 The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.  [1913 Webster]

Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.

Hip, interj. 

 Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

Hip, n. 

 See Hyp, n.  [1913 Webster]

Hip, a. 

•  Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.  [PJC]
•  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.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Hip, n.
1 a projection of the pelvis and upper thigh-bone on each side of the body in human beings and quadrupeds.
2 (often in pl.) the circumference of the body at the buttocks.
3 Archit. the sharp edge of a roof from ridge to eaves where two sides meet.

Idiom

hip-bath a portable bath in which a person sits. hip-bone a bone forming the hip, esp. the ilium. hip-flask a flask for spirits etc., carried in a hip-pocket. hip-joint the articulation of the head of the thigh-bone with the ilium. hip-length (of a garment) reaching down to the hips. hip-pocket a trouser-pocket just behind the hip. hip- (or hipped-) roof a roof with the sides and the ends inclined. on the hip archaic at a disadvantage.

Derivative

hipless adj. hipped adj. (also in comb.).

Hip, n. (also hep) the fruit of a rose, esp. a wild kind.

Hip, adj. (also hep) (hipper, hippest or hepper, heppest) sl.
1 following the latest fashion in esp. jazz music, clothes, etc.; stylish.
2 (often foll. by to) understanding, aware.

Idiom

hip-cat a hip person; a devotee of jazz or swing.

Derivative

hipness n.

Hip, int. introducing a united cheer (hip, hip, hooray).

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

Hip

all the rage, all the thing, ankle, articulation, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, boundary, broadside, butt, buttocks, cervix, cheek, chop, clinch, closure, coast, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, croup, crupper, current, dovetail, elbow, embrace, fashionable, flank, gliding joint, go-go, groovy, hand, handedness, haunch, haunches, hep, hind end, hinge, hinged joint, in fashion, in style, in vogue, interface, into, join, joining, joint, jowl, juncture, knee, knuckle, laterality, link, many-sidedness, miter, mod, modern, mortise, multilaterality, nates, neck, new, newfashioned, on the beam, pivot, pivot joint, planking, popular, posterior, prevalent, profile, quarter, rabbet, really into, rear, rear end, rump, scarf, seam, shore, shoulder, side, siding, smart, stitch, suture, symphysis, temple, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trendy, unilaterality, union, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, weld, with it, wrist

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Hip

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.