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Hip Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Hip?
[n] either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
[n] the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum [n] the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates [n] the fruit of a rose plant [adj] (informal) informed about the latest trends Synonyms | Synonyms for Hip: articulatio coxae | coxa | hep | hip joint | hip to(p) | informed | rose hip | rosehip Related Terms | Find terms related to Hip: all the rage | all the thing | ankle | articulation | backside | bank | beam | behind | border | boundary | broadside | butt | buttocks | cervix | cheek | chop | clinch | closure | coast | connecting link | connecting rod | connection | coupling | croup | crupper | current | dovetail | elbow | embrace | fashionable | flank | gliding joint | go-go | groovy | hand | handedness | haunch | haunches | hep | hind end | hinge | hinged joint | in fashion | in style | in vogue | interface | into | join | joining | joint | jowl | juncture | knee | knuckle | laterality | link | many-sidedness | miter | mod | modern | mortise | multilaterality | nates | neck | new | newfashioned | on the beam | pivot | pivot joint | planking | popular | posterior | prevalent | profile | quarter | rabbet | really into | rear | rear end | rump | scarf | seam | shore | shoulder | side | siding | smart | stitch | suture | symphysis | temple | tie rod | toggle | toggle joint | trendy | unilaterality | union | up-to-date | up-to-datish | up-to-the-minute | weld | with it | wrist See Also | appendicular skeleton | arteria glutes | articulatio spheroidea | ball-and-socket joint | body | body part | coccyx | cotyloid joint | enarthrodial joint | enarthrosis | fruit | girdle | gluteal artery | hip | hipbone | ilium | innominate bone | ischial bone | ischium | os ischii | os pubis | pelvic arch | pelvic girdle | pelvis | pubic bone | pubis | rose | sacrum | spheroid joint | tail bone | thigh | torso | trunk Hip In Webster's Dictionary \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.] |
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