English Explanatory Dictionary

hip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  2. The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  3. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
  4. A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
verb
  1. To use one's hips to bump into someone.
  2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
  3. 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.
  4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
noun
  1. The fruit of a rose.
adj
  1. Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
verb
  1. To inform, to make knowledgeable.
intj
  1. An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
noun
  1. Acronym of Home Information Pack.
  2. Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.
  3. Acronym of historically informed performance.
  4. Initialism of hot isostatic pressing
name
  1. A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
  2. A surname.

Pronunciation

hĭp /hɪp/ En-us-hip.ogg

Word forms

hip hips hipping hipped hipper hippest

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

rosehip cool groovy

Related words

hep hip cat hipster hippy hippie put someone hip hip-hop

Derived words

connected at the hip dancer's hip the hip hip and shoulder hipball hip bath hip bone hipbone hip boot hip check hip dip hip dysplasia hip-flask hip flask hip fracture hip-grinding hiphugger hip-huggers hiphuggers hip joint hip joint arthrosis hip joint disease hipless hiplike hipline hip lock hip pack hipper hip pocket hip-pocket client hip-pocket flask hip replacement hip roof hip-shooter hip-shooting hip-shot hipshot hip speed hip thrust hip thrust pad hiptop hip tree hip whip joined at the hip play it close to the hip pyramid hip roof rose hip shoot from the hip smite hip and thigh snapping hip syndrome nonhip rosehip hipwort hipdom hipification hiply hipness hipoisie overhip superhip

Translations

Abkhaz: ауаҭәа Afrikaans: heup Albanian: këllk Western Apache: bikʼai Arabic: وَرِك Arabic: ورك Arabic: خصر Armenian: ազդր Armenian: զիստ Armenian: բուդ Asturian: cadera Azerbaijani: bud Basque: aldaka Belarusian: сцягно́ Belarusian: бядро́ Bhojpuri: कूल्हा Bau Bidayuh: kubab Central Bikol: iksan Bulgarian: бедро́ Bulgarian: тазобедрена става Catalan: maluc Chechen: варе Chinese Mandarin: 髖 /髋 Coptic: ⲕⲉⲣ Cornish: klun Czech: kyčel Danish: hofte Dhivehi: އުރު Dutch: heup Elfdalian: myörn Esperanto: kokso Faroese: mjødn Finnish: lonkka Finnish: lanne French: hanche Galician: cadril Galician: caeira Galician: cadeira Galician: anca Galician: illarga Gamilaraay: baa Georgian: ბარძაყი Georgian: თეძო German: Hüfte Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐍀𐍃 Greek: ισχίο Ancient Greek: ἰσχίον Haitian Creole: anch Haitian Creole: ranch Hebrew: יָרֵךְ Hindi: कूल्हा Hungarian: csípő Icelandic: mjöðm
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