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Hip (?), n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h&ü;fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h&ö;ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. &unr_; the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
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1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
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2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
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3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell.
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Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone. -- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. -- Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3. -- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. -- To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.
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Hip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.] 1. 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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2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
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3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
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Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.
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Hip (?), n. [OE. hepe, AS. heópe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip. [Written also hop, hep.]
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Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.
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Hip, interj. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Hip, or Hipps (&unr_;), n. See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]
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hip, a. 1. Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
Syn. -- tuned in.
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2. Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; -- used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties.
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