Hip
Hip , noun
[Old English hipe, huppe, Anglo-Saxon hype; akin to Dutch heup, Old High German huf, German hufte, Danish hofte, Swedish hoft, Gothic hups; compare Icelandic huppr, and also Greek {not transcribed} the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lithuanian 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.
(Architecture) 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
Collocations (10)
Hip bone (Anatomy) , the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anatomy) , the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anatomy) , the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Architecture) , a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Architecture) , a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Architecture) , the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof or Hipped roof (Architecture) , a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, transitive verb, 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. — Shakespeare
To smite hip and thigh , to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. — Judg. xv. 8
Hip , transitive verb
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.
Collocations (1)
Hipped roof , See Hip roof, under Hip.
Hip , noun
[Old English hepe, Anglo-Saxon heópe; compare Old High German hiufo a bramble bush.]
(Botany) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
Collocations (1)
Hip tree (Botany) , the dog-rose.
Hip , interjection
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Hip ({not transcribed}) , noun
See Hyp, n. [Colloquial]
Also: Hipps
hip , adjective
1.
Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
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.