hips

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

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]

   Synonyms:

   rosehip

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