hips

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Your hip is the area of your body at the top and side of your thigh, beside your pelvis. You might have a habit of closing the refrigerator door by bumping it with your hip.

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The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

Noun
either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

Noun
the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

Noun
the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

Noun
the fruit of a rose plant

Adjective S.
informed about the latest trends

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n.
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

n.
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.

n.
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

v. t.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

n.
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

interj.
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

n.
Alt. of Hipps

Hip

Hip , n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h'81fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h'94ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.] 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. 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. 3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell. 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, ∨ 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.

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. 2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). 3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

Hip

Hip , n. [OE. hepe, AS. he'a2pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.

Hip

Hip, interj. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

Hip, or Hipps

Hip, or Hipps , n. See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]

The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

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.

The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

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Usage Examples

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Country's hip it's cool music.

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

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Other Usage Examples

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.