hip

Meaning

Noun

1. The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
2. The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
3. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
4. (slang) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.

Verb

1. To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
3. 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.
4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Adj

Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

Verb

To inform, to make knowledgeable.

Intj

An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.

Synonyms

haunch

pelvis

thigh

waist

rose hip

hip bone

rump

buttocks

coxa

rosehip

hip joint

loins

hep

hip to

pelvic arch

femur

ridge

articulatio coxae

trendy

side

pelvic girdle

pinch

plait

posh

possum

posteriors

recent

shank

spine

stylish

up to date

hypochondrium

modern-day

faddy

rectus

backside

forked shape

bone

🦴

buttock

cool

🆒

coxal

current

fashionable

groin

hipped

hips

hit

hooray

inform

knee

lap

leg

🦵

loin

lower back

middle

new-fashioned

opossum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɪp/

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.

Sentences

His hip struck the knee of the next player .