Hip Definition

hĭp
hip, hipped, hipper, hippest, hipping, hips
noun
hips
The part of the human body surrounding and including the hip joint; esp., the fleshy part between the waist and the upper thigh; haunch.
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The corresponding part of an animal's body.
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The hip joint.
American Heritage Medicine
The angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof.
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adjective
hipper, hippest
Sophisticated; knowing; aware.
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Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.
American Heritage
Fashionable; stylish.
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Of or associated with hipsters or hippies.
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(slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]

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interjection
Used in cheers.
Hip, hip, hurray!
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verb
To make (a roof) with such an angle or angles.
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(chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
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To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
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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.
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(slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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abbreviation
(UK) Home Information Pack.
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(travel industry) Higher Intermediate Point.
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idiom
on the hip
  • at a disadvantage
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smite hip and thigh
  • to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
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get (<i>or</i> be) hip to
  • to become (or be) informed or knowledgeable about
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Other Word Forms of Hip

Noun

Singular:
hip
Plural:
hips

Adjective

Base Form:
hip
Comparative:
hipper
Superlative:
hippest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hip

  • on the hip
  • smite hip and thigh
  • get (or be) hip to

Origin of Hip

  • 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 *ḱeu̯bh₂- (compare Welsh cysgu ‘to sleep’, Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kýbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit śupti [Devanagari?] ‘id.’), from *keu-, *keu̯ə- (“to bend”). More at high.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupōn (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, dialectal Norwegian hjúpa 'briar'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- 'briar, thorn' (compare Old Prussian kaāubri 'thorn', Lithuanian kaubrė̃ 'heap').

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably a variant of hep. Maybe from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hipe from Old English hēope

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English hype

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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