hip
/hɪp/ noun, verb, adjective, interjection, proper noun
Forms hips hipping hipped hipper hippest
- noun (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- noun The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- noun In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- noun (slang, possibly dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
- verb (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- verb (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- verb 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.
- verb To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- noun The fruit of a rose.
- adjective (slang, dated) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
- verb (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- interjection An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
- proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
rosehip cool groovy hip hip pelvis pelvic girdle pelvic arch hip joint coxa articulatio coxae rose hip hep hip to
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.
From Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“briar, thorn”) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri (“thorn”), Lithuanian kaubrė̃ (“heap”)).
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
- noun 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.
- verb 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.
- verb To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
Etymology [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. hüfte, Dan. hofte, Sw. höft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. kumpis ham.]
Etymology [OE. hepe, AS. heópe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hip”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details