The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
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.
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
See Hyp, n.
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 throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; - same as hep.
Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; - used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties.
The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. Often used in the plural - see buttocks.
The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
