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Hip - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Hip : adj : informed about the latest trends [syn: hep, hip to(p)]
(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 [syn: pelvis, pelvic girdle,
pelvic arch]
3: the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and
the acetabulum [syn: hip joint, coxa, articulatio
coxae]
4: the fruit of a rose plant [syn: rose hip, rosehip]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Hip : \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hipping.]
1. 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.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling
(technically called cross buttock).
3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hip : \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of
cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of
the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2. (Arch.) 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.
3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end
post meets the top chord. --Waddell.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hip : \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble
bush.] (Bot.)
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose
({Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.]
Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hip : \Hip\, interj.
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hip : \Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n.
See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Hip |
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BigmistasBBQ: @BBQCentralShow Bookers is always top of my list. Then Woodford Reserve. Lately it has been Jim Beam Red Stag. Got Hip at the Royal. |
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HuddleUpTexas: Case McCoy very mobile, throws on run to either side. Accurate to deep sideline as throw starts at Hip. |
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kdo3: Get Hip ; my voice got her |
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