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hiplessness

hiplessness noun: absence of hips.

Noun

hiplessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of hips.
    • It remains the forgotten borough; even the success of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan did not remove the island’s seemingly impenetrable veneer of hiplessness.2007 October 7, Cara Buckley, “Bohemia by the Bay”, in New York Times

Origin of hiplessness

From hipless + -ness.

Questions about hiplessness

What does hiplessness mean?
Hiplessness means absence of hips.
What part of speech is hiplessness?
Hiplessness is a noun.

Words near hiplessness in the dictionary

  1. Hipkin
  2. Hipkins
  3. Hipkinses
  4. hiplength
  5. hipless
  6. hiplessness
  7. hiplet
  8. hiplets
  9. hiplife
  10. hiplike
  11. hipline

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