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hip-shot

hip-shot is the alternative form of hipshot.

Meaning of hipshot

Adjective

hipshot (comparative more hipshot, superlative most hipshot)

  1. Having a dislocated hip.
  2. (dated) Clumsy, awkward.
  3. (US, colloquial) Standing with one hip lower than the other.
    • No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 686

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Forms of hip-shot

comparativemore hip-shot
superlativemost hip-shot

Questions about hip-shot

What is hip-shot the alternative form of?
Hip-shot is the alternative form of hipshot.

Words near hip-shot in the dictionary

  1. hip-pocketing
  2. hip-pockets
  3. hip-shooter
  4. hip-shooters
  5. hip-shooting
  6. hip-shot
  7. HIPAA
  8. hipball
  9. hipberries
  10. hipberry
  11. hipbone

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