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What's The Definition Of Hip?

\Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.] 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. 2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions. 3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. --Waddell. {Hip bone} (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also {haunch bone} and {huckle bone}. {Hip girdle} (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. {Hip joint} (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. {Hip knob} (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. {Hip molding} (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. {Hip rafter} (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. {Hip roof}, {Hipped roof} (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See {Hip}, n., 2., and {Hip}, v. t., 3. {Hip tile}, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. {To catch upon the hip}, or {To have on the hip}, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. --Shak. {To smite hip and thigh}, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.
\Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hipping}.] 1. 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. 2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). 3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. {Hipped roof}. See {Hip roof}, under {Hip}.
\Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose ({Rosa canina}). [Written also {hop}, {hep}.] {Hip tree} (Bot.), the dog-rose.
\Hip\, interj. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
\Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n. See {Hyp}, n. [Colloq.]