Definition of HIP

hip

Meanings

Plural: hips

Noun

  • either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
  • the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
  • the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
  • (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
  • the fruit of a rose plant
  • The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  • The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  • In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
  • A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
  • The fruit of a rose.

Adjective Satellite

  • informed about the latest trends

Verb

  • To use one's hips to bump into someone.
  • 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.
  • To inform, to make knowledgeable.

Adj

  • Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

Intj

  • An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh 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 at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.

Synonyms

articulatio coxae, cool, coxa, groovy, hep, hip joint, hip to, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis, rose hip, rosehip

Scrabble Score: 8

hip is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
hip is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hip is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

hip is a valid Words With Friends word