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 *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.
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.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- 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 for hip verticals
- (slang, possibly dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
- 1953, William Burroughs, Junkie:
- 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 Burroughs, Junkie:
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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.
- (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.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“briar, thorn”) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri (“thorn”), Lithuanian kaubrė̃ (“heap”)).
Noun[edit]
hip (plural hips)
- The fruit of a rose.
- c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, OCLC 1154964007, [line 175-178]:
- 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. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips;
The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush
Lays her full mess before you.
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Etymology 3[edit]
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century.[1] Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”).[2] Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip.[3] Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however.[1]
Adjective[edit]
hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)
- (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
- 1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Blue”, in Blue:
- Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest 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”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 65:
- “Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.
- 1985 February, David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs”, in Playboy[1]:
- 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 got hip 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”, in New York Time[2]:
- Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.
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Verb[edit]
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.
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Interjection[edit]
hip
- An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “hip, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018.
- ^ Major, Clarence (1994) Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang, page 234
- ^ Jonathon Green (2022), “hip, adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
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Albanian[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *skūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push”). Compare German schieben (“to push”), English shove, Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”).
Verb[edit]
hip (first-person singular past tense hipa, participle hipur)
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Adjective[edit]
hip (comparative hiper, superlative hipst)
- genteel (stylish, elegant)
- fashionable (characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style)
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Slovene[edit]
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Noun[edit]
hȋp m inan
Inflection[edit]
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | híp | ||
gen. sing. | hípa | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | híp | hípa | hípi |
accusative | híp | hípa | hípe |
genitive | hípa | hípov | hípov |
dative | hípu | hípoma | hípom |
locative | hípu | hípih | hípih |
instrumental | hípom | hípoma | hípi |
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