hip

Noun (1)

hip (plural hips)

1. 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.
   • in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals1887, John Alexander Low Waddell, General Specifications for Highway Bridges of Iron and Steel
4. (dated, possibly, slang) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
   • Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books

Verb (1)

hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped)

1. To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("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.

Noun (2)

hip (plural hips)

1. The fruit of a rose.
   • 1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there?
     OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [line 175-178]
   • The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips;
     The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush
     Lays her full mess before you.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   rosehip

Adjective

hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)

1. (dated, slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
   • I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier
   • Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though1971, Joni Mitchell, “Blue”, in Blue

   Synonyms:

   cool, groovy

Verb (2)

hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped)

1. (slang, transitive) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
   • No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover1958, Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, page 90
   • She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay1964, Rex Stout, A Right to Die, page 78

Interjection

1. An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.

   Synonyms:

   hip hip

Noun (3) capitalized: HIP

HIP (countable and uncountable, plural HIPs)

1. (UK, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Home Information Pack.
2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.
3. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of historically informed performance.
4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of hot isostatic pressing

Proper noun capitalized: Hip

Hip

1. A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
2. A surname.