Hip

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  • interjection. Usually used to begin a cheer.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The laterally projecting prominence of the pelvis or pelvic region from the waist to the thigh.
  • noun. A homologous posterior part in quadrupeds.
  • noun. The hip joint.
  • noun. The external angle formed by the meeting of two adjacent sloping sides of a roof.
  • adjective. Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.
  • adjective. Very fashionable or stylish.
  • noun. A rose hip.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A morbid depression of spirits; melancholy: usually in the plural.
  • noun. The projecting part of an animal formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur, with the flesh covering them; the upper part of the thigh; the haunch.
  • noun. The hip-joint.
  • noun. In entomology, the coxa or first joint of an insect's leg.
  • noun. In architecture: The external angle at the junction of two sloping roofs or sides of a roof.
  • noun. The rafter at the angle where two sloping roofs or sides of a roof meet. See cuts under hip-roof and jack-rafter
  • An exclamation used in applauding or giving the signal for applause: as, hip, hip, hurrah!
  • To hop.
  • noun. The fruit of the dogrose or wild brier, Rosa canina or R. rubiginosa.
  • To sprain, gall, or injure the hip of. In the extract the sense is doubtful.
  • In architecture, to furnish with a hip: as, to hip a roof.
  • To throw (one's adversary) over the hip.
  • To render hypochondriac or melancholy: scarcely used except as in the participial adjective hipped. See hipped.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
  • adjective. 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.
  • interjection. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
  • noun. The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
  • noun. the dog-rose.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
  • transitive verb. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
  • transitive verb. See Hip roof, under Hip.
  • noun. See hyp, n.
  • noun. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
  • noun. the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
  • noun. the pelvic girdle.
  • noun. the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
  • noun. a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
  • noun. a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
  • noun. the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
  • noun. a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
  • noun. to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The fruit of a rose.
  • verb. To inform, to make knowledgeable.
  • noun. The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  • Word Usage
    "During the jive era of the late 1930s and early 1940s, African-Americans began to use the term hip to mean "sophisticated, fashionable and fully up-to-date"."
    Equivalent
    Form
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chip  Crip  Flip  Kip  Nip  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abdomen  ankle  belly  breast  buttock  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    hep  hipper  hippest  hop  hyp  
    verb-form
    hipped  hipping  hips