hip
Significado (Inglês)
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- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- (slang) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
Sinônimos
hip joint
hip to
articulatio coxae
forked shape
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/hɪp/
Etimologia (Inglês)
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.
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