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hipping

hipping is the present participle and gerund of hip.

Meaning of hip

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.

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

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Questions about hipping

What is hipping the present participle and gerund of?
Hipping is the present participle and gerund of hip.

Words near hipping in the dictionary

  1. hippies
  2. hippiest
  3. hippietastic
  4. hippin
  5. hippiness
  6. hipping
  7. hippings
  8. hippins
  9. hippish
  10. hippity
  11. hippity hoppity

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