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How to use hip in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Hip means the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. Example: “I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.”

Examples of hip by meaning

nounA 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

adjectiveAware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

  • I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier
  • “Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 65
  • She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things.1985 February, David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs”, in Playboy, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2019

verbTo 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
  • She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay1964, Rex Stout, A Right to Die, page 78
  • Later she hipped Chris to boosting1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, page 223

More sentences with hip

  • I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.From the entry slip
  • The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.From the entry mix
  • Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.From the entry psych
  • He brought a hip flask along, just in case he needs a little pick-me-up later.From the entry pick-me-up
  • Good backside throw leads to good hip speed which leads to good bat speed.From the entry backside throw
  • I can't get about so much since I hurt my hip.From the entry get about
  • What's hip with your kids: Emo is the air du temps in teenage fashion and music.From the entry air du temps
  • An overbust corset encloses the torso, extending from just under the arms to the hips.From the entry overbust
  • He had surgery on his hip yesterday.From the entry have
  • His osteoporosis first manifested as pain in his hips.From the entry manifest
  • Good hip speed leads to good bat speed.From the entry hip speed
  • The serrations formed the hips and valleys of what looked like a series of miniature gabled roofs or rooflets.From the entry rooflet
  • "Neon Gravestones" is a forlorn, slow-burning hip hop piano ballad.From the entry slow-burning
  • Total hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced with an artificial one.From the entry hip joint
  • I got caked up doing hip thrusts.From the entry caked up
  • Her hips wiggle as she walks.From the entry wiggle
  • (Music in a distinct style associated with an ethnicity.): Hungarians produce a lot of good rock and hip hop music, but it's their ethnic music that I find especially interesting.From the entry ethnic music
  • The ectomorph body type is characterized by narrow shoulders and hips and a lean build.2025 February 6, Laura Schober, “Everything To Know About Having an Ectomorph Body Type”, in Health. From the entry ectomorph
  • We’re already taking proactive steps to protect our hip pockets in the face of rising interest rates.2022 July 19, Jessica Mizrahi, “With inflation rising in Australia, an uncomfortable truth is we waste a lot of what we have”, in The…. From the entry hip pocket
  • “Think of this as something to have in his hip pocket when the Democrats start negotiating.”2021 September 14, Sam Potter, Katherine Greifeld, Elaine Chen, “ETF Industry Risks Losing Key Tax Edge as Democrat Whets Knife”, in…. From the entry in one's hip pocket
  • Nobody in the history of hip hop catch more strays than Tito Jackson.2021 June 2, @thoughtfulbae, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2021. From the entry catch a stray
  • Jana planted her hands on her hips, rainchecked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback. From the entry raincheck
  • Dewar, one-handed still, rootched in the bag slung at his hip and found the jemmy bar.2018, Elizabeth Willey, A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, Gateway, →ISBN. From the entry rootch
  • I settled on the boy who stood up in superhero stance, hands on his girlish chinoed hips.2018, Koren Zailckas, The Drama Teacher, Crown, →ISBN. From the entry chinoed
  • Jess ran over and scooped her up, again, and settled her on her hip.2018 August 24, Kimberly Diede, Tangled Beginnings: A Whispering Pines Novel, →ISBN. From the entry diaperbutt
  • Jana planted her hands on her hips, rain-checked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback. From the entry rain-check
  • His father has mellowed, too; a bad hip has softened his cough.2016, Mary Morrissy, Prosperity Drive, →ISBN. From the entry soften someone's cough
  • Lower extensions on each end also display hip bellcast rooflines while separate eaves extend over the platform.2016, Ron Brown, Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle: Rails Over the Mountains. From the entry bellcast
  • A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors.Daniel Greenfield (10 November 2016), “The Obama Era is Over”, in Israel Rising, IsraelRising.com, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2016. From the entry Obamerica
  • The silky sarong fell away, pooling around her hips with a whisper.2015, Lindsay McKenna, “[Hidden Heart] Chapter 7”, in Lindsay McKenna, Merline Lovelace, edited by Patience Bloom, Course of Action…. From the entry taut
  • Tiffany put her hands on Janelle's hips and motorboated her breasts.2015, Jill Sorenson, Shooting Dirty, unnumbered page. From the entry motorboat
  • She bowed and lifted her skirt at the hip, just enough to show some thigh.2015, Jessica Alcott, Even When You Lie to Me, New York, N.Y.: Crown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry wolf-whistle
  • Keep your hips lifted as much as possible during the transition from three point to flip dog.2015, Jennifer DeCurtins, The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions, page 19. From the entry flip dog

Meaning of hip

  1. noun The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  2. noun The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  3. noun In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

Full definition of hip

Questions about hip in a sentence

How do you use hip in a sentence?
Hip is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.”
What is a short sentence with hip?
“Her hips wiggle as she walks.”
What does hip mean?
Hip means the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hip (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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