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. (dated, possibly, 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

Translations

hanche

cadera

Hüfte

anca

heup

quadril

ισχίο

maluc

femur

coxa

fianco

anca

gratte-cul

cynorrhodon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hipe

Inherited from Old English: hype

Cognate with Dutch: heup

Cognate with Low German: Huop

Cognate with German: Hüfte

Cognate with Welsh: cysgu

Cognate with Latin: cubāre

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κύβος

Cognate with Albanian: sup

Cognate with Sanskrit: शुप्ति

Inherited from Middle English: hepe

Inherited from Old English: hēope

Cognate with Dutch: joop

Cognate with German: Hiefe

Cognate with Faroese: hjúpa

Cognate with Prussian: kaāubri

Cognate with Lithuanian: kaubre

In summary

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 .