hip

See also: HIP

English

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The bones of a human hip.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp, IPA^(key): /hɪp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

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 [Devanagari?] ‘id.’), from *keu-, *keu̯ə- (“to bend”). More at high.

Noun

hip (plural hips)

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Waddell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• hipbone
• hip joint
• hipster

• hip replacement
• hip roof
• shoot from the hip

Translations

joint

• Arabic: ورك m (warik)

  Egyptian Arabic: ورك m (werk)

• Armenian: ազդր (hy) (azdr), (rare) զիստ (hy) (zist), (colloquial) բուդ (bud)
• Asturian: cadera (ast) f
• Belarusian: сцягно n (scjahnó), бядро n (bjadró)
• Bulgarian: бедро (bg) n (bedró)
• Catalan: maluc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 髖 (zh), 髋 (zh) (kuān)

• Coptic: ⲕⲉⲣ m (ker)
• Czech: kyčel (cs) f
• Danish: hofte (da) c
• Dutch: heup (nl) f
• Elfdalian: myörn m
• Esperanto: kokso
• Faroese: mjødn f
• Finnish: lonkka (fi), lanne (fi)
• French: hanche (fr) f
• Galician: cadeira (gl) f
• Georgian: ბარძაყი (barjaqi)
• German: Hüfte (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐍀𐍃 (hups)
• Greek: ισχίο (el) n (ischío)
• Hebrew: יָרֵךְ f (yarekh)
• Hungarian: csípő (hu)
• Icelandic: mjöðm f
• Indonesian: pinggang (id)

• Italian: anca (it) f
• Japanese: ヒップ (hippu), 腰 (ja) (こし, koshi)
• Korean: 엉덩이 (ko) (eongdeong-i)
• Latgalian: lytka f
• Latin: coxa f
• Latvian: gurns m
• Luxembourgish: Hëft f
• Mongolian: ташаа (tašaa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mjødm f, hofte (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: mjødm f, hofte f

• Old Norse: mjǫðm f
• Ottoman Turkish: قالچه (kalça), کفل (kefel)
• Polish: biodro (pl) n
• Portuguese: quadril (pt) m
• Romanian: șold (ro)
• Russian: бедро (ru) n (bedró)
• Santali: ᱰᱩᱠᱮ (dduke)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кук m

  Roman: kuk m

• Slovak: bedro n
• Spanish: cadera (es) f
• Swedish: höft (sv) c
• Turkish: kalça (tr)
• Tuvan: бел кежи (bel keži), бел кеш (bel keš), бел кежик (bel kežik)
• Ukrainian: стегно n (stehnó), бедро (uk) n (bedró)
• Volapük: hip (vo)

Verb

hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped)

1. (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
3. 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.
4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Etymology 2

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').

Rose hips.

Noun

hip (plural hips)

1. The fruit of a rose.

Derived terms

• rosehip

Translations

the fruit of a rose

• Czech: šípek (cs) m
• Danish: hyben n
• Dutch: rozenbottel (nl) f
• Faroese: hjúpa f, rósuber n
• Finnish: ruusunmarja (fi)
• French: cynorrhodon (fr) m
• German: Hagebutte (de) f

• Hungarian: csipkebogyó (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nype m, f

  Nynorsk: nype f

• Polish: owoc (pl) dzikiej róży (pl)
• Slovak: šípka f
• Swedish: nypon (sv) n

Etymology 3

Probably a variant of hep. Maybe from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”).

Adjective

hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)

1. (slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
   • 2012 April 24, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, New York Time:

     Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.

Synonyms

• cool, groovy

Verb

hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped)

1. (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.

Related terms

• hipster
• hippy
• hippie

See also

• hip-hop
• hip, hip, hooray
• hip hip hooray
• hip, hip, hurray

Anagrams

• phi

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• hyp

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- 'to push'. Compare German schieben (“to push”), English shove, Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’.

Verb

hip (first-person singular past tense hipa, participle hipur)

1. I get on, ride, straddle
2. I rise, go up, climb into

Related terms

• humb

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxíːp/
• Tonal: hȋp

Noun

híp m inan (genitive hípa, nominative plural hípi)

1. moment

Declension

Declension of híp (masculine inan., hard)

	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