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Hip   /hɪp/   Listen
Hip

noun
1.
Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh.
2.
The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates.  Synonyms: pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis.
3.
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.  Synonyms: articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint.
4.
(architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof.
5.
The fruit of a rose plant.  Synonyms: rose hip, rosehip.
adjective
(compar. hipper; superl. hippest)
1.
Informed about the latest trends.  Synonyms: hep, hip to.



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"Hip" Quotes from Famous Books



... accident, when he was getting impatient over inaction, and next day the doctor came and pronounced the wound healing well. If Tenney had a crutch, he might try it carefully, and Tenney remembered Grandsir had used a crutch when he broke his hip at eighty-two, and healed miraculously though tradition pronounced him done for. It had come to the house among a load of outlawed relics, too identified with the meager family life to be thrown away, and Tira found it "up attic" and brought it down to him. She waited, ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... something protruding under his woolen jacket. With a quick flash of instinct her sense of feeling recognized this thing. She jerked up the jacket, and there was the stock of a pistol protruding from his hip pocket. In an instant Olive ...
— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton
... THORESEN, AT THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL:— Notwithstanding my advanced years, and the weakness of my eyes, and the pain in my right hip, I must yield to the importunity of the young, for we old people are needed by them when they have caught themselves in some snare. They entice us and weep until they are set free, but then at once run away from us again, and will take no further advice. Now it is Marit; she coaxes me with many ...
— A Happy Boy • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... blue and a lucent blue enamel to a rich ultramarine which absorbed and healed the office-worn mind. The sails of tacking sloops were a-blossom; sea-gulls swooped; a tall surf-fisherman in red flannel shirt and shiny black hip-boots strode out into the water and cast with a long curve of his line; cumulus clouds, whose pure white was shaded with a delicious golden tone, were baronial above; and out on the sky-line the ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... And he climbed up, till he reached the top of the Earl's Hall; and thence he got to the top of the Castle, and he sprang down from the walls, and went and joined Owain. And the lion gave the giant a stroke with his paw, which tore him from his shoulder to his hip, and his heart was laid bare. And the giant fell down dead. Then Owain restored the two youths ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards


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