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hipped

hipped adjective: having hips or a feature resembling hips. Also the simple past and past participle of hip.

Adjective (1)

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

  1. Having hips or a feature resembling hips.
    • hipped roof
  2. (in-compounds) Having hips of a specific kind.
    • a wide-hipped woman

Adjective (2)

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

  1. (slang) Aware, informed.
    • If I admitted, though, to being a little hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the sake of argument: essays and minority reports, page 200
  2. (slang, with-on) Interested.

Adjective (3)

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

  1. (archaic) Depressed.
    • 'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge
    • 'I had seen more of the quiet and peace of the country than had been my share since boyhood, and for that reason, or because I had no great taste for the task before me - the task now so imminent - I felt a little hipped.'1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter II, in Under the Red Robe
    Antonyms:
    unhipped

Also used as

hipped is also the simple past and past participle of hip.

Antonyms of hipped

Forms of hipped

comparativemore hipped
superlativemost hipped

Origin of hipped

From hip (anatomy sense) + -ed.

From hip (verb).

See hip (“trendy”).

Words formed from hipped

Phrases with hipped

Questions about hipped

What does hipped mean?
Hipped means having hips or a feature resembling hips.
What part of speech is hipped?
Hipped is an adjective.

Words near hipped in the dictionary

  1. hipparionine
  2. hipparions
  3. hippeastrine
  4. hippeastrum
  5. hippeastrums
  6. hipped
  7. hipped roof
  8. hipped roofs
  9. hipped rooves
  10. hippedy-hop
  11. hippeis

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