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Hip   /hɪp/   Listen
Hip

noun
1.
Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh.
2.
The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates.  Synonyms: pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis.
3.
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.  Synonyms: articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint.
4.
(architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof.
5.
The fruit of a rose plant.  Synonyms: rose hip, rosehip.
adjective
(compar. hipper; superl. hippest)
1.
Informed about the latest trends.  Synonyms: hep, hip to.



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"Hip" Quotes from Famous Books



... when he was on the point of action. The first day, for instance, the Manager fainted from the heat. Another time when he had decided to do the deed, the Manager did not come down to the office at all. And a third time, when his hand was actually in his hip pocket, he suddenly heard Thorpe's horrid whisper telling him to wait, and turning, he saw that the head cashier had entered the room noiselessly without his noticing it. Thorpe evidently knew what he was about, and did not intend to let ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... which he acquaints him with the dangerous way he is in. He tells him, 'That his life is a burden to him. He wishes it was brought to its period. He does not think himself in skilful hands. He complains most of the wound which is in his hip-joint; and which has hitherto baffled the art both of the Italian and French surgeons who have been consulted. He wishes, that himself and Sir Charles had been of one country, he says, since the greatest felicity he now has to wish for, is to yield ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson
... though he found it a relief to stand upright, and more mould trickled from his garments in the act; he took off the alpaca jacket, and shook it as one shakes a handkerchief. There could have been nothing in the pockets, certainly no weapon, and if he had a hip-pocket there was none in that, for his gaunt figure stood out plainly enough in the middle of the room. There was still the newspaper parcel; he had put it down on one of the walnut-tables. He now removed the paper; it fell at Pocket's feet, ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... the way out onto the veranda, where the doctor was aware of a girl in a short riding skirt who stood with one gloved hand on her hip while the other slapped a quirt idly against her ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... start for de next station. I was hit in de hip, and it took me tree days to crawl dat twenty-five miles. On de tird ebening I knock at de door ob de house, and when it was open I tumble down in faint inside. It war a long time before I come to myself, two weeks dey tell me, and den I tink I dream, for sitting ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty


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