The bones of a humanhip . FromMiddle English hipe ,hupe , fromOld English hype , fromProto-Germanic *hupiz (compareDutch heup ,Low German Huop ,German Hüfte ), fromProto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compareWelsh cysgu ( “ to sleep ” ) ,Latin cubāre ( “ to lie ” ) ,Ancient Greek κύβος ( kúbos ,“ hollow in the hips ” ) ,Albanian sup ( “ shoulder ” ) ,Sanskrit शुप्ति ( śúpti ,“ shoulder ” ) ), from*ḱew- ( “ to bend ” ) . More athigh . The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.
hip (plural hips )
( anatomy ) The outward-projecting parts of thepelvis and top of thefemur and the overlyingtissue .The inclined externalangle formed by the intersection of two sloping roofplanes . In abridge truss , the place where an inclined end post meets the topchord .1887 ,John Alexander Low Waddell ,General Specifications for Highway Bridges of Iron and Steel :in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts forhip verticals
( slang , possibly dated ) Adrug addict , especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.1953 , William Lee [pseudonym;William S. Burroughs ],Junkie , New York: Ace Books:Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits tohips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.
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hip (third-person singular simple present hips ,present participle hipping ,simple past and past participle hipped )
( chiefly sports ) To use one's hips to bump into someone.( wrestling ) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock ").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. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. FromMiddle English hepe ,heppe ,hipe , fromOld English hēope , fromProto-Germanic *heupǭ (compareDutch joop ,German Hiefe ,Faroese hjúpa ), fromProto-Indo-European *ḱewb- ( “ briar, thorn ” ) (compareOld Prussian kaāubri ( “ thorn ” ) ,Lithuanian kaubrė̃ ( “ heap ” ) ).
Rosehips . hip (plural hips )
Thefruit of arose .Synonym: rosehip c. 1590 (date written),G[eorge] P[eele] ,The Old Wiues Tale. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, [ … ] , published1595 ,→OCLC ,[line 175-178] :1. BROTHER .[ …] What doo you gather there?OLD MAN .Hips andHawes , and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.c. 1605–1608 ,William Shakespeare , “The Life of Tymon of Athens ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act IV, scene iii] :The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlethips ; The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you.
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant ofhep ; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century.[ 1] Some sources suggest derivation fromWolof hepi ( “ to see ” ) orhipi ( “ to open one’s eyes ” ) .[ 2] Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on ahip .[ 3] Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.[ 1]
hip (comparative hipper ,superlative hippest )
( slang ) Aware ,informed ,up-to-date ,trendy .[from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s] 1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, inCavalier :I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out inhip crowds with budding young folk stars.
1971 ,Joni Mitchell , “Blue”, inBlue :Everybody's saying that / Hell's thehippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though
1975 October 27,Jeff Greenfield , “Ragged but Funny”, inNew York , volume 8, number43 , page65 :“Saturday Night” has an explicitlyhip , cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.
1985 February, David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs”, inPlayboy [1] , archived fromthe original on19 March 2019 :One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She gothip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things.
2012 , John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, inNew York Time [2] :Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into ahip destination.
aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy
hip (third-person singular simple present hips ,present participle hipping ,simple past and past participle hipped )
( transitive , slang ) To inform, to make knowledgeable.1958 ,Jack Kerouac ,The Subterraneans , page90 :No doubt, too, Sand must havehipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
1964 ,Rex Stout ,A Right to Die , page78 :She's a volunteer,hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
1969 ,Iceberg Slim ,Pimp , page223 :She went ape over Chris. She'd go downtown and come home with shopping bags loaded with fine dresses and underclothes for herself and her sisters. Later shehipped Chris to boosting
1983 August 20, Mary Frances Gonzales, “Come Together”, inGay Community News , volume11 , number 6, page 5:A friend justhipped me to your rag and its[sic ] been a totally beautiful experience! Presently I'm imprisoned at the California Institute for Women and would like to receive my own issues of GCN. 2009 , Sean Rogers,Pynchon and comics :The guyhips himself to so many things.
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An exclamation to invoke a united cheer:hip hip hooray . ↑1.0 1.1 “hip,adj. ”, inOED Online , Oxford:Oxford University Press , March 2018. ^ *Major, Clarence (1994 ) “hip; hipping”, inJuba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang , Puffin Books,→ISBN ,page234 ^ “hip adj. ”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang ,Jonathon Green , 2016–present FromProto-Albanian *skūpa , fromProto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- ( “ to push ” ) . CompareGerman schieben ( “ to push ” ) ,English shove ,Lithuanian skùbti ( “ to hurry ” ) .
hip (aorist hipa ,participle hipur )
toget on ,ride ,straddle torise ,go up ,climb into Standard Albanian conjugation ofhip (active voice)
Borrowed fromAmerican English hip .
hip (neuter hipt ,plural and definite singular attributive hippe )
( colloquial ) modern ,in ,fashionable ,trendy 1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Borrowed fromEnglish hip .
hip (comparative hiper ,superlative hipst )
genteel ( stylish, elegant ) fashionable ( characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style ) Borrowed fromEnglish hip .
hip (strong nominative masculine singular hipper ,comparative hipper ,superlative am hippsten or am hipsten )
( informal ) hip ,trendy Synonym: trendig 2022 August 13, Fabian Schroer, “Zwangsräumungen wegen Brandschutzmängeln: Rausschmiss ohne Warnung”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz [3] ,→ISSN :Außerdem plant die Stadt einhippes Innenstadtquartier mit Wohnungen für 4.500 Menschen. Erklärtes Ziel des Großprojekts: „Hochfeld zu beleben.“ (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) “hip ” inDuden online “hip ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache hȋp m inan
moment Contraction ofhihip .
hip (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜉ᜔ )( obsolete )
Alternative form ofhihip Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914 )Diccionario tagálog-hispano , Ateneo de Manila,page328 .