Hip

Pronunciation

• enPR: hÄ­p, IPA: /hɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

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 *ḱeu̯bh₂- (compare Welsh cysgu ‘to sleep’, Latin cubāre ("to lie"), Ancient Greek κύβος (kýbos, "hollow in the hips"), Albanian sup ("shoulder"), Sanskrit śupti ‘id.’), from *keu-, *keu̯ə- ("to bend"). More at high.

Full definition of hip

Noun

1. (anatomy) 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.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called 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.

Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupōn (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, dialectal Norwegian hjúpa 'briar'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- 'briar, thorn' (compare Old Prussian kaāubri 'thorn', Lithuanian kaubrė̃ 'heap').

Noun

1. The fruit of a rose.

Derived terms

• rosehip

Probably a variant of hep. Maybe from Wolof hepi ("to see") or hipi ("to open one’s eyes")

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Adjective

1. (slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s
• 2012, John Branch, Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel CreekRudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.

Synonyms

• cool, groovy

Verb

1. (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
• 1958, Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
• 1964, Rex Stout, A Right to Die, She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
• 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, She went ape over Chris. She'd go downtown and come home with shopping bags loaded with fine dresses and underclothes for herself and her sisters. Later she hipped Chris to boosting
• 2009, Sean Rogers, Pynchon and comicsThe guy hips himself to so many things.

Related terms

• hipster
• hippy
• hippie

Anagrams

• phi