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- 1 Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. dated, slang
"I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars."
- 1 informed about the latest trends wordnet
- 1 An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
- 1 A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
- 2 A surname.
- 1 The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- 2 The fruit of a rose.
"1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne."
- 3 Acronym of Home Information Pack. British, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 4 either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh wordnet
- 5 The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
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- 6 Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 7 the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum wordnet
- 8 In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
"in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals"
- 9 Acronym of historically informed performance. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 10 the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates wordnet
- 11 A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin. dated, possibly, slang
"Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices."
- 12 Initialism of hot isostatic pressing abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 13 the fruit of a rose plant wordnet
- 14 (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof wordnet
- 1 To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- 2 To inform, to make knowledgeable. slang, transitive
"No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover"
- 3 To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- 4 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.
- 5 To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Etymology
From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.
From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.
From Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“briar, thorn”) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri (“thorn”), Lithuanian kaubrė̃ (“heap”)).
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.
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