Pronunciations (2)
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/hɪp/
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hɪp
Noun
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.
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in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals
A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
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- possibly
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Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.
Verb
To use one's hips to bump into someone.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
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.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Noun
The fruit of a rose.
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1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.
The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you.
Adjective
Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
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I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.
Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though
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“Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.
One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things.
Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.
Verb
To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
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She went ape over Chris. She'd go downtown and come home with shopping bags loaded with fine dresses and underclothes for herself and her sisters. Later she hipped Chris to boosting
A friend just hipped me to your rag and its ^([sic]) been a totally beautiful experience! Presently I'm imprisoned at the California Institute for Women and would like to receive my own issues of GCN.
The guy hips himself to so many things.
Interjection
An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
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Adjective
informed about the latest trends
Noun
either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
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the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
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the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
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(architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
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the fruit of a rose plant
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