hip
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Etymology 1 [edit]
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 *ḱeu̯bh₂- (compare Welsh cysgu ‘to sleep’, Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kýbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit śupti ‘id.’), from *keu-, *keu̯ə- (“to bend”). More at high.
Noun [edit]
hip (plural hips)
- (anatomy) 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.
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Verb [edit]
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.
Etymology 2 [edit]
Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupōn (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, dialectal Norwegian hjúpa 'briar'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- 'briar, thorn' (compare Old Prussian kaāubri 'thorn', Lithuanian kaubrė̃ 'heap').
Noun [edit]
hip (plural hips)
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Etymology 3 [edit]
Probably a variant of hep. Maybe from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”)[1].
Adjective [edit]
hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)
- (slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
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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, page 90:
- No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
- 1964, Rex Stout, A Right to Die, page 78:
- 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, page 223:
- 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 she hipped Chris to boosting
- 2009, Sean Rogers, Pynchon and comics
- The guy hips himself to so many things.
- 1958, Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, page 90:
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References [edit]
- ^ 1994, Clarence Major, Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang:
Albanian [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Albanian *skūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- 'to push'. Compare German schieben (“to push”), English shove, Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’[1].
Verb [edit]
hip (first-person singular past tense hipa, participle hipur)
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References [edit]
- ^ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill , Leiden 2000
Slovene [edit]
Noun [edit]
hip m inan.
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
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- English terms derived from Wolof
- English adjectives
- English slang
- Albanian terms derived from Proto-Albanian
- Albanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Albanian verbs
- Slovene nouns
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