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.

Concepts

hip

haunch

thigh

pelvis

rose hip

waist

buttocks

hip bone

rump

loins

coxa

hip joint

rosehip

hep

femur

trendy

hip to

articulatio coxae

pelvic arch

pelvic girdle

side

ridge

posteriors

fashionable

stylish

coxal

lap

hypochondrium

inform

pinch

groin

leg

hit

buttock

loin

bone

opossum

possum

backside

posh

plait

faddy

knee

cool

hipped

forked shape

hips

hooray

middle

current

modern-day

new-fashioned

recent

up to date

rectus

shank

lower back

spine

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 .