hip

hip
    adj 1: informed about the latest trends [syn: {hep}, {hip}, {hip
           to(p)}]
    n 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 [syn: {pelvis}, {pelvic girdle}, {pelvic
       arch}, {hip}]
    3: the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and
       the acetabulum [syn: {hip}, {hip joint}, {coxa}, {articulatio
       coxae}]
    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 [syn: {hip}, {rose hip}, {rosehip}]
    

Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
   huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
   Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? 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 \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; 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 \Hip\, interj.
   Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
   Hip
    

Hip \Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n.
   See {Hyp}, n. [Colloq.]
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hip \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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Hip \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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      beam, behind, border, boundary, broadside, butt, buttocks, cervix,
      cheek, chop, clinch, closure, coast, connecting link,
      connecting rod, connection, coupling, croup, crupper, current,
      dovetail, elbow, embrace, fashionable, flank, gliding joint, go-go,
      groovy, hand, handedness, haunch, haunches, hep, hind end, hinge,
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      join, joining, joint, jowl, juncture, knee, knuckle, laterality,
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      nates, neck, new, newfashioned, on the beam, pivot, pivot joint,
      planking, popular, posterior, prevalent, profile, quarter, rabbet,
      really into, rear, rear end, rump, scarf, seam, shore, shoulder,
      side, siding, smart, stitch, suture, symphysis, temple, tie rod,
      toggle, toggle joint, trendy, unilaterality, union, up-to-date,
      up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, weld, with it, wrist