hip
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hipe, hupe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hype, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Waddell to this entry?)
- (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
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- (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
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hēope, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“briar, thorn”) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri (“thorn”), Lithuanian kaubrė̃ (“heap”)).
Noun
hip (plural hips)
- The fruit of a rose.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 175-178,[2]
- 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. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,[3]
- The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips;
- The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush
- Lays her full mess before you.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 175-178,[2]
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Etymology 3
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
hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)
- (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
- 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[4]:
- 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[5]:
- 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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- (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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Etymology 4
Interjection
hip
- An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
References
- ↑ 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
- ^ Green, Jonathon (2019) “hip, adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang[1]
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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *skūpa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- (“to push”). Compare German schieben (“to push”), English shove, Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”).
Verb
hip (aorist hipa, participle hipur)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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
Pronunciation
Noun
hȋp m inan
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | híp | ||
gen. sing. | hípa | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
híp | hípa | hípi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
hípa | hípov | hípov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
hípu | hípoma | hípom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
híp | hípa | hípe |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
hípu | hípih | hípih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
hípom | hípoma | hípi |
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