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hip
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, 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]
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, 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.
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.
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, wristROGET THESAURUS
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.Also see definition of "hip" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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