hip

UK /hɪp/ US /hɪp/
noun 9verb 5name 2adj 1intj 1

Definitions

noun

1

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.

in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals

4

A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.

Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.

verb

1

To use one's hips to bump into someone.

2

To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("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.

noun

1

The fruit of a rose.

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.

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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